ORDER-2016-137 : Appropriation in the amount of $55,706.41 from Account #620000-330001 (Mt Hood Reserve fund) to Account #620000-529000 (Mt Hood Professional Services). This appropriation is necessary to fulfill contract obligations.

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▶ 6:05 Scott M. Forbes: thank you i have a motion to close public participation made by alderman mortimer second second by alderman Zwirko all those in favor aye aye any opposed public participation portion of this committee meeting is concluded we have one order before us tonight is order number two zero It's an appropriation in the amount of $55,706.41 from account number 620000-330001, which is the Mount Hood Reserve Fund, to account number 620000-52900, Mount Hood Professional Services. This is an appropriation that's necessary to fulfill contract obligations.

▶ 6:48 Peter D. Mortimer: to suspend the rules that we may hear from the director of parks and the chairman of the park

▶ 6:54 Speaker 4: commission we got a motion to suspend the rules seconded by alleman's work of all those in favor any opposed the rules are suspended welcome thank you for your attendance here this evening could you just kind of give us a uh a summary of the order that we have before us tonight thank you mr chairman members of the committee um the good news is we made more money last year than we thought we was that we would every year when we do the budget on the professional services which is the payments to golf management we do it on the prior year and we budgeted for 850 this year we made a little bit more 905 we need to move some money over to pay those those folks the 55,000 706 that we owe and the revenues will catch up in the next couple of months when the when the golf course is open and the money will be back in there at that point in time so we're confident that our reserves are such that it's not a

▶ 7:52 Speaker 1: problem I mean I think also for people to know that the money doesn't come out of the city it comes out of money that was generated by Mount Hood and stays with Mount Hood the contract is based on percentages like Bill said we did better this year we can't you know it's all weather depending if we if we do better they do better we all do better of course open the floor for questions

▶ 8:17 Scott M. Forbes: motion to recommend for passage and motion recommend by made by Alderman Mortimer second second by Alderman Tramontozzi any discussion all those in

▶ 8:25 Peter D. Mortimer: favor any opposed since we've made the motion you've already opened you had a soft opening the course is already open for play and then it was closed again and then it was open again and yeah now it's open again open March 8th which was

▶ 8:39 Speaker 1: almost a month early right but then we've been closed for the last week and a half or so we're back out with soft openings no carts just walkers yeah over the weekend the same thing but we still we did pretty good so you're off to a

▶ 8:55 Speaker 4: good start on the revenue March was about 121,000 with by comparison usually it's about 30 45 thousand or so so March was historically so it's tough to get a

▶ 9:08 Peter D. Mortimer: tea time i guess yeah an optimistic outlook an optimistic outlook so far i i think we were back

▶ 9:12 Speaker 4: when we were here in in june to talking about the budget revenues and the biggest liability we had was the water bill at the time we had some good news this past meeting that we had that we hired a company to come in and take a look and and they fracked you know the well on the first uh near the first hole second hole i guess it is and uh basically double the production uh so that that was the biggest uh lack of a pun drain on our uh on our budget numbers in the last in the last couple of years was the water bill and um that's looking very very optimistic going forward

▶ 9:50 Peter D. Mortimer: has that uh at this juncture i know the well was completed successfully has it actually put any

▶ 9:58 Speaker 4: water in the reservoir system up there not yet we don't have to it's kind of a need based thing right Alderman Mortimer the numbers were last year when things went a little bit haywire it was it was pumping 40 gallons per minute and since they did this work it's 104 gallons per minute so we're like two and a half

▶ 10:20 Speaker 1: times what we were and you know I don't on average that well does and what we're talking about is we maintain all the irrigation amount to it through the well system and only when we are in dire needs do we have to go on city water and then the Mount Hood Enterprise Fund pays for that we were having a problem where we were getting 78 which is what we need to maintain it dropped down to 40 and we brought in a company which does a co2 fracking that clears out the lines you know just over the years that hasn't been done and it opened it back up we went up to 104 gallons when they came back into the retest so I think we're back to where we should be we you know should be able to handle the irrigation without going on city water unless you know another very tragic hot weather

▶ 11:09 Peter D. Mortimer: comes and something happens to our pump but when you just said 78 and 40 those were our gallons per minute that were pumped last year and if just I think it is repeating uh we may it's a good possibility that you won't have to go on city water at all this season uh with with the new well at 104 gallons per minute if if everything stays all right and the early opening with revenue so yeah the outlook is optimistic yeah that's great yeah that's great that's all i have mr chairman thank you thank you continuing the discussion alderman

▶ 11:42 Robert A. Boisselle: boizel let's go back to the drilling operation you said this was a fracking uh operation i think that's what they call the way brought by chemicals or co2 co2 all co2 so there was no ponds and so forth or anything else those all environmental clear and

▶ 11:58 Speaker 4: we cleared it with the Conservation Commission too good all right thank you

▶ 12:03 Scott M. Forbes: very much Thank You mr. chair okay I just like say personal preference I was a part of that hundred and twenty one thousand in March revenue of course is a

▶ 12:12 Scott M. Forbes: great shape we do have a motion to recommend and I was duly second and We'll try this again, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes, this will be presented for our next board meeting. You don't have to be there in attendance, and we thank you for being here tonight. Thank you.

▶ 12:26 Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much. Thank you.

▶ 12:28 Speaker 6: Motion to adjourn.

▶ 12:30 Scott M. Forbes: We have a motion to adjourn, made by Alderman Tramontozzi, seconded by Alderman Mortimer. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Finance committee is now concluded. Stay tuned for legal and legislative.