Board Book 2023

budget with $27K above budget. The Pace of Play on Riverside was 4:06 and Highlands was 4:07 and budget was 4:15. Every day had carts on path. The mix of transportation was 51% carts, 30% trolleys, and 19% walkers. We had 589 phone calls weekly. Bud has a person selected to answer the phone, but we need someone to fill in for his position first. This person would be in the Riverside hut and would answer all phone calls Tuesday-Friday. The phone would not ring in the golf shop. We would be able to answer the phone and call people back. We only average 60 calls a day on weekends. This would be an enhancement to our golf service and operation. Some discussion included: The capability to track the drainage performance on Highlands via carts off path days. There are still some glitches with the AAC app. David explained that we are a beta site for the app and kinks are still being worked out. Eric Portman is helping us research other club software. They are visiting Boca West next month with our new CFO to look at it. For Masters week we had $98K in guest fees which is up 20% from 2019. It would be great to be able to cancel a tee time within 24 hours via the app vs. a phone call. There is currently no way to cancel a tee time other than calling the golf shop. Director of Agronomy – Lukus Harvey: Lukus Harvey discussed the importance of 150 degree days, which is the high and low combined temperatures, and this is when the warm turf grasses are growing at their peak. We have had cooler and wetter weather this year so it will be closer to July before carts will be off path. We have laid 3 truckloads of sod and are waiting on the sod farm for 8 more truckloads, but they too have been impacted by the cooler weather. We have a month’s worth of sodding left to do on Riverside. We came off the path on three more holes on Highlands today. Greens are healthy and speeds are good. We verticut one course each week on Monday. We will miss some Mondays due to outings, tournaments, championships, etc. so we will have to double up on some Mondays. The GCM standards have been worked on for a year and this will be a good tool for our team to use. We have retained Tripp Davis as our course consultant/architect and he will be here May 23-30. replacement cost is $4.8-5M. We have 297 acres of maintained turf grass but 392 total maintained acres on this side of the road. We use 74 tons of fertilizer a year. Lukus then reviewed the types of grasses on each course, the par 3 and practice areas. We spread 31,500 bales a year. It costs the department $20,000 to cover and uncover greens. We have 3,472 sprinklers on the property. Greens cost 14,200 labor hours to maintain yearly; bunkers cost 21,200 labor hours. Lukus asked that committee members use the Instant Feedback app, or take a picture and email Lukus if something is not right: a sprinkler head is broken, liner on bunker showing, broken rake, etc. That really helps Lukus and his team. Lukus will demonstrate some of the technology he uses at future meetings. One of the newest is the GS3 smart ball from USGA. Lukus then reviewed facts and figures about the GCM department. We have team of 78 full time members and 11 managers. We have 282 pieces of equipment and 33% is leased. The total