Dear Editor,
I am an avid golfer, and homeowner at Trilogy. I have played the golf course hundreds of times, and I am happy that Course Co has taken over management of the property.
There is much work that needs to be done and many challenges that have been faced and overcome to date. Amongst those has been the obvious challenges of the virus.
The county health director limited the number of workers that could maintain the course during the stay in place order, and that set back the schedule for repairing the course, but a lot of good things are going to be happening over the next couple of months.
Course Co., the company that manages the golf course, restaurant and bar, informed the homeowners at a recent meeting that the five-year plan for restoration could be expedited if the HOA were to appropriate additional funds to do so.
The sooner the golf course is restored, the more the public will come to play, and the more we will be able to charge them to do so. It makes economic sense to spend money to make money.
If the satellite system that controls the irrigation system was updated it would alleviate many brown spots that are a current eye sore, and a dredging of the ponds on the golf course could be expedited sooner rather than later if additional funding were to be allocated which would improve the local aroma.
The Master Board has funds available if they chose to allocate additional resources. Our dues contribute 400 thousand dollars per year to a development fund which currently has a balance of about 900 thousand dollars, and there is more than a million dollars available in what is called the 4th Fund which is unallocated resources which the Board could allocate in any manner that is determined to be in the best interests of the H.O.A.
A primary mission of the H.O.A. is to protect and enhance property values.
Investing in modernizing the Monarch Grill, expanding the patio area, refurbishing the Delta Club as well as the Vista Club, and expediting a portion of the 5 year plan to revitalize the golf course would all be worthy expenditures that would meet the goal of protecting and enhancing property values while providing venues to allow for collective enjoyment.
I encourage the Master Board to make prudent investments in our community rather than accumulate large sums of money in low bearing interest rate accounts.
Now is the BEST time to invest in our precious “green piece”!
Thank You,
Bobby Jones
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