Staff members described persistent low water pressure that has limited the course’s automated irrigation and forced workers to hand‑water greens each morning.
Staff member 1, a staff member, said, "Today? We're talking about October, November, possibly. Who knows? Yeah. They've got this has been 2 years that we've only had." The staff member said the site currently lacks enough pressure to run all irrigation and that crews must "pick and choose what we wanna water each night."
The staff member described the irrigation layout and constraints, saying water leaves a pump house through large mains — "big 8 inch, kind of 6 inch forage pipes" — then crews decide whether to route available pressure to uphill sections ("pull uphill like 15") or to combinations of holes ("13 and 11 and 12"). He told the meeting there are "2,000 sprinklers out there" and that pressure limits mean some areas would be brown without selective watering.
"So we're trying to prioritize at night watering from, like, 9PM to 3AM, some fairways to some teas, and then we come in as a gang and we hand water all the greens, all the colors, all the approaches, and all green surrounds every morning," Staff member 1 said. The staff member added that hand‑watering and prioritization are labor‑intensive and that the crew would welcome rain.
The transcript records no formal vote or directive on the irrigation issue and no funding figures were provided. The staff presentation described the problem as operational: limited pressure, pipe routing choices, and crew labor to make up for automated irrigation shortfalls.
As an additional, separate note in the same presentation, Staff member 1 said, "The only other thing that's getting around right now, like we mentioned earlier, is the proposal. There's a proposal for a new restaurant building, combined maybe with a new grocery shop, with a new carpet complex." The transcript includes that sentence but provides no supporting documents, site plan, funding breakdown or action related to that proposal.
The meeting record does not identify any subsequent direction from the governing body, nor does it show staff being asked to return with cost estimates or engineering reports. The comments in the transcript came from staff during the meeting’s operational update and were presented as matters for staff attention rather than items on which the governing body took formal action.