- 30 free golf games per week for 50 years
- potential of 55,500 free golf games
- a potential value of $40 per games is worth $2,220,000
Councilman Rob Crawley’s Facebook post
June 17, 2015 at 3:25 a.m.
My first question to previous council people and possibly Mayor Sears is this one: Lone Peak Links sold the golf course to us for their cost plus project management fees. They were reimbursed for all of their expenses into the golf course. They were also compensated finely for being able to build houses next to the golf course for an increased value than other like-size homes. This advantage was probably worth several million dollars. In my mind the obligation of maintaining the golf course that gave them such an advantage would make sense, but when their funding sources didn’t come through, the city jumped in and took the whole responsibility for the financial risk of running the course.
This appear to be so heavily to the advantage of Lone Peak Links and so heavily disadvantageous to the city that got no financial benefit for the development of the homes bordering the golf course. The real question I have pertains more to today than the background it is as follows: Why if the contract seems so heavily leaning to the advantage of Lone Peak Links did the city sign into the contract 30 free golf games per week for 50 years? With the average golf season from March to Mid November this equates to 55,500 free golf games, which at a value of $40 per games is worth $2,220,000. In reality they probably can’t use all those golf games so its value could be much less.
Part of why I am asking this question is I don’t know what obligations we would have to Lone Peak Links if we decided to have parks instead of a golf course for instance. Also, the contract says that the passes are subject to availability and I hear they are pushing to schedule times during our busy golf times, which has the potential of reducing our revenue. I would like to understand why we felt that we needed to add the free golf to a contract that seems to have been already heavily to Lone Peak Links advantage.