Alex, the golf course superintendent, presented a two-month maintenance report covering June and July and told the commission about irrigation repairs, fungus treatments and cultural work intended to restore stressed turf.

Alex said record high temperatures and humidity had created stress pockets susceptible to fungus; staff used slit seeding, hand seeding and green sanding to promote regrowth and applied preventive fungicide and herbicide on a two-week interval. “Greens were spiked and rolled to help continue to close and heal the aerification holes,” Alex reported. He said the course has used slit seeding in fairways and roped and staked new turf while performing targeted bunker and green surround repairs.

The superintendent described multiple irrigation repairs during the two-month period: roughly 20 feet of mainline replaced on No. 9, 10 feet installed under No. 1 cart path, additional four-inch mainline sections installed on Nos. 3 and 9 fairways, a failed electric valve on No. 13 replaced, and multiple lateral leaks repaired. He also reported a new two-inch gate valve replacing a failed valve feeding the No. 6 pond and that the city water department assisted with leaks.

Alex said the course installed a new credit-card reader on the range ball machine on June 5, 2025, and that staff are preparing cart paths for a new fleet of carts to limit damage to the new vehicles. Top-dressing equipment has not yet been delivered, he said. He added that irrigation audits occur daily and that the course typically waters in the evening at about 7 p.m.; staff reduce irrigation where saturation is noted.

Commissioners raised operational questions about concrete grinding tolerances for cart paths and asked staff to focus grinding on areas with 1-to-3-inch differences rather than a quarter-inch tolerance. Alex said staff will prioritize the larger problem areas. He also said the plan is to upgrade the driving-range pad and install lighting over the coming winter; those projects will require temporary range closures.

No formal actions were taken; the report was received and commissioners asked staff to follow up with cost and schedule details for cart-path grinding, range upgrades and top-dressing delivery dates.