Golf courses to close during pro shop move
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The Maryville City Council on Monday addressed a number of issues related to ongoing work at the new conference center and golf course clubhouse at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park, a $4.7 million facility set to open soon after the first of the year.
Assistant City Manager Ryan Heiland told the council the existing clubhouse, ultimately slated for demolition, and both Mozingo golf courses, Sechrest 18 and Watson 9, will close from Monday, Oct. 16 through Monday, Oct. 30, so that park staff can move golf operations, including the pro shop, into the new facility.
After the courses reopen, tee time check-in services will temporarily relocate to the golf course maintenance building at 25053 Liberty Road south of the main course entrance at Fall Drive. Golfers will begin play on Sechrest hole No. 3 during the transition.
Heiland said signs will be posted to guide golfers to the temporary check-in location.
“This is a major logistical process and will require our full staff to minimize further disruption to golf course operations,” Heiland said in a prepared statement. “While we understand that any closure is inconvenient for our avid golfers, we greatly appreciate your cooperation and understanding.”
In other Mozingo business, the city’s governing board executed a contract with Robertson Entertainment for the purchase of two TruGolf golf simulators for the budgeted amount of $106,400, including installation, shipping and handling.
Both simulators are to be installed on the lower level of the conference center, which will also house a restaurant, golf pro shop and golf cart storage garage.
The council also executed a contract with the Advantage Church Chair company for the purchase of various types of chairs and tables, most of which will be used in a modular upper-level banquet hall and meeting space at the conference center designed to accommodate events attended by up to 500 people.
At $22,000, Advantage submitted the lower of two table-and-chair bids. The other offer, from Event Stable, came to just under $28,000.
In a fourth Mozingo item, the council OK’d a not-to-exceed contract for $12,500 with Hue Labs for redesign of the 3,000-acre park’s website.
Heiland said the creation of an online reservation system for RV campsites, cabins, shelters and other amenities has significantly increased traffic on the existing site, which has slowed functionality for users.
On other fronts, the council approved liquor-by-the-drink licenses for the new Planet Sub sandwich shop nearing completion at 217 W. Fourth St. It also granted a request from the Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce to hold its third annual Chamber Christmas Parade.
This year’s parade is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1. Floats and marchers will line up along East Second Street prior to the procession and march north on Main Street to Franklin Park. Streets along the route will close around 4 p.m. that afternoon.
Following the parade, the holiday crowd will gather in the park for the traditional lighting ceremony on the first night of Winter Wonderland. Affected streets are expected to reopen following the conclusion of festivities around 7:30 p.m.
Additional business included:
• Execution of a “contract of obligation” with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources governing post-closure liability for the former city landfill.
The agreement lowers an existing “financial assurance instrument” by $39,742, thus lessening the city’s total liability with regard to landfill closure to $1.79 million. The FAI amounts to an insurance policy required by the state to guard against environmental issues that might emerge at the site.
Maryville closed the landfill under a state mandate in 2008 after agreeing to pay monitoring costs in annual installments over the next 30 years. That payment, unrelated to the FAI, is currently set at $30,000.
• Approval of a recommendation from Finance Director Denise Town to refund $2.4 million in 2009 general obligation bonds used to pay for an expansion of the Maryville Community Center.
Town said refunding will lower interest on the bonds from 4.41 percent to between 2.25 and 2.35 percent “based on current market conditions and anticipated investor interest.”
She said the move would result in a net savings to the city of $217,000, which is equivalent to a percentage savings of 8.9 percent.
• Approval of an ordinance to execute a contract with Allied Systems Inc. for the purchase of a 150-horsepower pump for the municipal water treatment plant at a budgeted cost of $15,000.
• Approval of an ordinance to execute a contract with J.D. Bishop Construction for $61,500 worth of concrete street repairs in Maryville’s Parkdale subdivision.
• Approval of an agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for a low-interest Statewide Transportation Assistance Revolving Fund loan — known as a STAR loan.
STAR funds will be used to finance the 10-percent local match associated with a $1 million Federal Aviation Administration grant through the Missouri Department of Transportation being used to pay for a new apron at Northwest Missouri Regional Airport.
• Adjustment of “liquidated damages” owed by Ideker Construction for a grant-funded runway repaving project at the airport completed by the company late last year weeks behind schedule.
The city’s claim totaled $41,250, but Ideker requested a $27,600 reduction in exchange for in-kind services that included providing 3,800 tons of base rock and waste concrete, which the city used in a variety of public works applications, including riprapping a portion of the shoreline at Mozingo Lake.
The council therefore lowered the liquidated damages balance in the amount of $27,600.
Ninety percent of the remaining $13,950 will be paid to the Missouri Department of Transportation, which administered the grant. The remaining 10 percent is to be applied to the city’s local match.
