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29 | cannot receive reports other than in a public meeting pursuant to the Brown Act, I asked her how it is we are expected to fulfill our duties. And her response was, 'you will get written reports from John Vest and Matt Wisely regarding the operations and the maintenance activities at the Golf Complex, and in your meeting you can ask questions on the record as to what follow up questions you might have about those items. John and Matt will listen to the tape and will then respond in writing to any questions that we raise at the meeting itself.' And that cumbersome procedure is now, according to the City Manager, the procedure that we are to follow from now on. I am totally offended, I am appalled at this attempt to marginalize the Golf Commission, but I'm damned if I'm going to resign, which is what I think this is all designed to do. So I hope the rest of you are listening. We're not resigning.' Commissioner Gaul: "I considered it, but I changed my mind. It only has to do with the way the City Council is behaving." 4 WRITTEN/ORAL REPORTS 4-A Golf Complex Maintenance activities report by Matt Wisely Written report was submitted by Matt Wisely (attached). 4-B Golf Shop and Driving Range activities report by John Vest Written report was submitted by John Vest (attached). Chair Sullwold: "I noticed that there was little discussion, if any -- in fact, none -- about the results of operations in terms of rounds played and revenues generated in the month of December or any explanation as to how that month compared to the previous month or to the month last year. I found that to be a pretty substantial absence from that report. Does anybody else have any other questions? I suspect that we're going to have to get used to this format and dig into it to see whether we really do have any questions." Commissioner Schmitz: "In the future, in this format, where we don't have a representative here, I think we really should have a list of about 100 or so questions that they can respond to in a written, if they want to do this by paper, then we can do that. Even at the meetings, there's a lot of questions come up, so if they want to spend, you know, 20 hours a week answering questions from the public and from the Golf Commission in writing, then, if that's the format they choose, we can do that." Chair Sullwold: "I'm actually somewhat at a loss about why this even came about. I know that the meeting that we had last January, which was the meeting after the Mif Albright surprise recommendation by the City Manager when we were all so taken aback by the fact that the numbers purportedly showed a huge loss on the Mif Albright course, when in fact, John had been telling us all along that everything was on target -- and that January meeting, John was not there and Matt was the only one here, and we confronted him with a lot of questions, and perhaps made him uncomfortable. I am not aware of any meeting since then where anyone from Kemper has been made uncomfortable. Am I missing something? Does anybody think that we've, I'm not even talking about. " 2 Golf Commission Minutes Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |