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Show I the grass, its hard to appreciate, he says. In the Before THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, August 8, 2001 - Page 12 Golf course is 80 (continued from page 1) In the contract with Daylen, Inc., for example, there is no allowance for extra costs to be billed if excess rock or poor soils were encountered. We forced the bidders to do their homework, adds Richardson. There has been much more rock than we thought, especially in the North Creek area. Without the tight contract, the City could have been liable for $100,000 in extra costs, or worse. Richardson and Snyder have managed the contract with trade offs, so even issues that might have been extra to the City have been minimized or absorbed with no extra cost. We always have a goal to not make any changes, but thats simply not practical, complete have been more than a quarter million dollars. Aside some from miscellaneous golf course work which had to be added due to the delay in getting electric power to. the golf courses booster pumps, the expected $10,000 range of extras is a "bargain, to quote Richardson directly. Already media attention has been focused on Monticello as a result of the courses views and design. "Its a remarkable course, says Richardson, I wish we could take all the credit, but is is a great piece of property and the City made a great decision in deciding to expand the Millsite and make a grand recreation basin across Highway 191. I know people wont believe me, but I says Richardson. When truly feel it could become one youre dealing with hundreds of the best layouts in all of of acres and all the nuances of Utah. Monticello should be trees and land forms, things very proud of what it has." dont always fit in the way Snyder, who has designed You for the past 50 years, courses do on to have they paper. make changes and sometimes points out that the real these take more time and interest in a course begins when the grass starts growing. money. So, how do they stay cn budget and at the same time have flexibility to change directions? We roll up our shirt sleeve and ask the builder to do the same thing, explains Richardson. Daylen has been absolutely terrific about this. I really cant imagine a better contractor to get this work done. The contract is roughly 80 percent complete as of August 1. Finishing work on the cart paths, drainage and seeding are the only mqjor areas left' to tidy up. In managing the budget, Richardson points out that only a few areas of the course and practice areas resulted in cost overruns, and 18-ho- Hole No. next few weeks everyone gets to see the results that have taken so long and so much effort to materialize. But a word of caution to the curious: damage to the course by people walking across areas, or especially ATVs running across areas, can be 18 Montezuma's Point Par-- 4 Up until now damage across open dirt was minor compared to the cost of or re ITu- - Oaasa Hollow huh: mil. luam-vai- play die uhiIicm the of all eighteen. It longed of the pnr4t. and H ng smoothing areas already utilizes Montezuma Creek weU as a mtaU pond immediately in front of the undulating green. Tee dims hit too far down the . (airway will be on a dnwiw-kipcthe ThcrehMe, cltukc idr the tec ii (I) to play lung, raking a lie on the dowiulnpc nr (!) hit dinner to tel up a mure Ictel lie. A ice dun hit mi king and lelt will hate die opportunity to reach the rrvek. While tin-- Ix--u pud-lin- n atna Hi hr right nf and king, ilia pint-lio- n will tviiirr a lull carry mcr water to the green. The choices are and dull just fur many starters. After the tec shot, players will now hate to decide whether to go bathe pin. the green ur die bail-ou- t area lu die left, link Kul III ia definilch mi raw gulf huh- and a errtain In deride-- mam inan he. planted and watered. According to the Monticello City Police, the contractor and City have asked that patrol efforts be stepped up to guard against damage and the costs associated with it. Richardson adds this piece of information, Damage to a green can cost tens of thousands of dollars, stuff. Pram 1:17 Yds. 430 Yds. 334 Yds. 323 Yds. costly. thats not kids llrxx Wall a It amounts to felony damage, he cautions. According to Daylen, Inc., the last ATV caught riding was a young boy in his teens, although he was released with a warning. Such leniency is probably the last to be seen should trespassers be caught from now through next spring. Montezuma c Cans ap A: Mound 3 'M v NOTE The name of the course and of the individual hole have not been finalized. Old Man Wf.st Golf Coirsf. 0 Hah Monlirrllu, Jensen Orthodontics Alan C. Jensen, D.D.S., M.S. 570 West 400 North - i Moab, Utah ? 84532 ;; 4 Call for an appointment Toll Free SERVING ALL YOUR ELECTRICAL NEEDS 877-322-73- 60 TOM PALMER SPECIALIZING IN BRACES 435-678-21- 08 Fax le S 435-678-32- 68 these were . related to drainage. Estimates of the cost extras are in the $10,000 range, and Richardson considers this low compared to most projects. You have three choices when it comes to drainage, he explains. "You can over design everything, which can add hundreds of thousands of dollars; you can try testing every inch of the property and soils, but that is costly and impossible; or you can anticipate problem areas and do your best to plan for them. The latter is how the new course was approached and it has paid off. Tbe only drainage areas that had to be dealt with as extras were seep areas along the old No. 9 fairway and a few isolated spots on South Creek land. They were far less costly than over designing or building. The original expectation was to keep overruns within the $100,000 contingency amount planned by the architects and agreed to by the City Council. Contingencies are usually in the ten percent range of the contract, according to Richardson. In Monticellos case that would ff" '7 'J THE FARM BUREAU xmmtm. m A August 1 6 6:00 pm SAN JUAN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS Theatrical Numbers Duets Trios Quartets Novelty Acts Dance Numbers Drama Instrumental Solos Instrumental Combinations Readings Vocal Sotos AMATEURS ONLY PUBLIC WELCOMED Sr & Int FIRST $50 SECOND $25 THIRD $15 Jr & Beg FIRST $25 SECOND $15 THIRD $10 SENIOR Ages 0 Ages 7 JUNIOR Ages BEGINNER Ages up to 6 18-3- INTERMEDIATE 13-1- 7--12 Fkst plcne wlmen In Senkx. . 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