The Mt. Ogden Golf Course story is back on the discussion front-burner, with this morning's most-excellent Hoyle Sorenson Guest Commentary:
• Golf course plan should preserve intrinsic valueMr. Sorensen refers to the four Golf Course options floated by Boss Godfrey back in the spring of 2008, which ranged in extremes from busting the city treasury with a massive multi-million dollar east bench overhaul, to letting the course go back to "seed."
Mr. Sorenson notes that the Godfrey Admistration has ignored any intermediate suggestions which might adhere to a minimilist golf course plan, and deftly observes that the Mayor's option of simply shutting down the course is plainly a half-baked non-starter.
As we prepare to swear in a new City Council in January, we believe Mr. Sorenson's guest commentary is both wise and timely; and we congratulate Mr. Sorenson and the Standard-Examiner for once again bringing this issue to the forefront.
In that connection we'll also join with Mr. Sorenson in urging the City Council to promptly address the Mount Ogden Golf Course issue once and for all, and to follow the financially prudent principles of small businesses all across America, in adopting a First Things First approach. With a hare-brained multi-million dollar golf course remodeling scheme simmering away as the continuing obsession of our borrow-and-spend, one-trick-pony City mayor, the golf course debate simply won't be going away on its own. With a new council set to take over in January, it's time for our city legislature to grab the bull by the horns, we think.
While the new council's at it by the way... as we've suggested before... the commissioning of a full independent accounting of long term golf course finances, as a crucuial first step, might not be a half bad idea either. We don't trust Godfrey's numbers; and we don't believe Council should trust them either. We know it sounds old-fashioned, but we're standing by our time-worn philosophical core axiom: Obtain and study the facts first -- then undertake action, if necessary.
That's it for now, WCF readers.
Don't let the cat get your tongues.
