• Proceed on a "pay-as-you-go" basis to tear down Fairway without a membership vote and without money on hand to finish the work.  The RCSC has bitten off more than the members can swallow.
• Proceeded with Fairway demolition without a cost and completion date guarantee.
• Pay Weitz Company a 4.25 percent contractor fee.  No cost or completion date guarantee means an open checkbook without any reason to keep costs down.
• Accept a 1 percent reduction in price to waive a performance and payment bond for the Weitz Company as general contractor for the Fairway project (Phase One).  If they go bankrupt or don't perform, we're out of luck.

To justify outside play, Ms. Ek claimed that “an unsold tee time is lost revenue that we can never be recaptured.”  Yet, without batting an eyelash, she closed Lakes West for six weeks because of “horrible transitions” in over seeding.  Sorry, golf courses just don’t close down for six weeks and stay in business.  A finger of blame points to justifiable firings!

Golf operations need cost cutting:

·        Reduce employees to 7 per regulation course, with 4 of that number as part-time, job-sharing seniors that reduce benefits since they’re already on Medicare.  Fewer employees, less equipment.

·        Hire one (1) bona fide golf course superintendent using a lower-paid assistant on each course.

Also, each center has a manager.  Do not hire high-salaried managers to manage managers.