DECEMBER 4, 2020 –

CHCRG filed a GRAMA request which read:

“Please provide all public records regarding all individuals or groups who have golfed fro FREE at the Cedar Hills owned golf course at any time during the 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons, and any and all other records regarding paid golf, golfers names, size of party, and all other general accounting of rounds scheduled and/or played.”

( see PDF of GRAMA request here …… 12-07-2020 GRAMA Request – Cromar

The following records were sent from City Recorder Colleen Mulvey on December 16th.

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 31, 2020 (3) Resident free coupon (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 31, 2020 (1) Regular Rate (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 31, 2020 Employee Rounds (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 (5) Comp Rounds (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 (4) Resident Rate (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 (3) Pass Rounds (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 (2) Groupon Rounds (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 (1) Punch Card Rounds (Redacted)

Tee Time Details Report – January 01, 2018 to December 06, 2020 Senior Weekday Rates (Redacted)

 

December 16th – City Manager sent an email to offer additional explanation as follows:

I wanted to send you an email with some clarifying information so as to prevent any confusion as to what each report represents. In your GRAMA request you asked for all free and paid rounds of golf for 2018, 2019, and 2020. Each report represents a separate pay class as registered at the point of sale. They are as follows:
 
Senior Weekday Rate – a paid round, but discounted for senior citizens golfing on a weekday
Groupon – a paid round, but discounted through a Groupon rate
Resident Rate – a paid round, but discounted, by a Cedar Hills resident
Employee Round – a free round played by an employee of either the City or the golf course
Resident Free Coupon – a free round played by a resident of Cedar Hills redeeming the coupon sent out each year to each household
Punch Card Rounds – a pre-paid round from the sale of a punch pass
Pass Rounds – a pre-paid round from the sale of an annual pass
Comp Round – a free round of golf
Regular Rate – a paid round of golf, paid at the regular rate of play
 
Regards,
Chandler Goodwin
City Manager
City of Cedar Hills

The annual deficit (losses) for our city golf course — prior to these records being provided — was an average LOSS of over $-580,000.00 per year, on bonding promotion by then Mayor Brad Sears guaranteeing at least $400,000. That’s over ONE MILLION DOLLAR difference annually from The Promise vs. The Reality.

Remember: This “wise purchase” on a golf course was purchased from the developer Ken Briggs who would have carried the losses on his “sure money maker” himself!

Instead CH taxpayers bailed him out.

WINNERS?:  Developer Ken Briggs and former Mayor Brad Sears and others basically having their own “personal golf club”  where apparently golf 10 years for FREE (see previous postings regarding hundreds of tee times) before then City Manager David Bunker and others found this unethical and helped put a stop to it. 

LOSERS? – Cedar Hills taxpayers and non-golfers, and CH taxpayers again who were convinced by Mayor Jenney Rees and the Council to BOND for more money to build the new parks because we’ve lost millions on the golf course.