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Show Cedar Hills Council Discusses Long Term Golf Course Maintenance and Repairs by Harlow Clark There are four torn sections in the driving range netting at the Cedar Hills golf course. As they continue tearing, the tears could affect other panels. The city council discussed five options op-tions for repair on December 3. 1) Replace the netting on the 4 panels, $12,900. 2) Replace 5 poles and the 4 panels, $84,000. 3) Replace all 17 poles with taller tall-er poles, 95 feet buried 15 feet in the ground, and new netting, $160,000. 4) Replace all 17 wooden poles with taller, painted steel poles and new netting, $204,000. 5) Replace netting and net stretching hardware on existing poles, $17,800. The current wooden poles have a service life of ten years, and they've been in service that long. In the discussion, Council Member Daniel Zap-pala Zap-pala said he wasn't comfortable comfort-able spending $200,000 on the golf course. Council Member Jenney Rees suggested replacing replac-ing the netting then taking up the poles in next year's budget discussion. Zappala said he liked that idea, and that he preferred thinking long term, which made replacing the poles a better bet-ter option. Rees started to make a motion approving Option 1 for now, then said it was already included in the budget, so no motion would be needed for that. But Council Member Trent Augustus pointed out that Option 1 comes out at about $3,000 per panel, while option 5 is about $1,000 per panel because it spreads out the mobilization costs over more poles. Rees said she would be happy with that if they could reuse the netting and moved to approve Option 5, with the proviso that they go with Option 1 if they couldn't reuse the netting. |