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GolfCommission | 2010-01-21 | 2 | she was turning to the consultant that she had hired, Dave Sams, asking him to do a report to her regarding non profits and how they work for operating golf courses. Ms. Gallant stated that the RFP interviews that were held last Friday, that she is now seeking some additional information on the RFP's, but she doesn't believe that she can go forward with a presentation to Council for a recommendation about who to negotiate with until the earliest being the second meeting in February. Ms. Gallant reported that she has been requested to do a complete financial analysis of the Golf Complex over the last ten years and she will include that as part of her City Manager communications at the City Council next Tuesday. Chair Sullwold stated that she was intending to attend the meeting, but the only opportunity to speak is not until the Open Communications portion of the meeting. Ms. Gallant intends to hire an independent Accountant to prepare this report. Chair Sullwold stated that Bob Sullwold has sent Ms. Gallant the analyses he has prepared and requested that the report be categorized in the same way and Ms. Gallant stated that was the preliminary direction it was going. Chair Sullwold quoted Ms. Gallant regarding "Transparency of Recommendation" regarding the Mif Albright course. Ms. Gallant stated "Well, I am sorry that people feel that this is not transparent, but I want to remind you both that I have absolutely over compensated and over compromised with involvement from you all in ways in which no other groups or issues had. I often worry that it is so bending over backwards on involvement of the golf community and staff recommendations that it is compromising what we are doing and risking criticism of staff for doing it. Please remember, not even the City Council knows what I am going to recommend in the Staff Report before it goes public, and you all cannot help shape, write or sign off on that recommendation. It is legally a confidential administrative document until issued on a formal agenda. Thus, you all can't know what I'm recommending. If someone feels set up, then there is nothing I can do, but we are going to follow the rules around here no matter how difficult that is. The place for the public's input into the process is at the City Council forum not during the Staff Report preparation period. Or, of course, you can go on the record in various way through the minutes of the Golf Commission". Chair Sullwold drafted a response to Ms Gallant stating that up until now it has always been the practice in the City of Alameda that matters affecting policies at the Golf Complex are typically brought by staff to the Golf Commission first and discussed before they are made a subject of a recommendation to City Council, and this practice started to erode until Debbie Kurita's regime, and thought it would be better under Ms. Gallant, but finds it is back to the old practices of not giving the Golf Commission any opportunity and in her opinion, it is a poor idea, it doesn't give any opportunity for input to be given to issues before that staff comes up with a recommendation as to what should be done about a problem. Considering the Mif Albright situation, it would have been helpful if she had seen financial information suggesting that the Mif was in trouble and come to the Golf Commission and said we need to talk about what needs to be done. She stated that the Golf Commission could have questioned some of the financial information Ms. Gallant and the City Council received stating that the information was a completely different set of assumptions than the information that John Vest had gathered for her when she made the presentation supporting reopening the course in the first place. The Golf Commission could have questioned whether it was reasonable to basically change courses in the middle of the stream instead of - 2 - Golf Commission Minutes -Thursday, January 21, 2010 | GolfCommission/2010-01-21.pdf |