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| OHCC LIVING | APRIL 2020 | 7 Golf Course Irrigation & Renovation By Don Lopez As you know, we held a Town Hall Meeting on the Golf Course Renovation on Feb. 28. We had a full house in Abravanel Hall. There were 375 chairs that were full, and many people standing. The response was excellent during the meeting. The questions were thoughtful and constructive. Melissa Chitwood on our Keystone staff, recorded the questions and comments which the Golf Course Renovation Committee will review at our next meeting. We will incorporate them in our planning if possible. A big thank you to all of you who attended and participated. The meeting was recorded and is now playing on our in-house channel 1960. The schedule is: Tues/Thurs/Sat at 1:30 am and 12 pm and Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun at 6 pm. If you were unable to attend the meeting, we hope you will be able to see it on our channel 1960. Another option is to go to our website and stream it on demand anytime you wish. The Town Hall Meeting gave us the chance to show you WHAT we are doing and WHY it is needed to enable us to use our well water, and repair the damage done to our course over the last 35 plus years. We discussed the path that lead us to this point where we are now prepared to accomplish this conversion to well water and renovation/ repair of the golf course. We started to secure reclaimed water for the golf course in 2010. We found that the course would need similar renovation to accommodate either reclaimed water or well water. We learned the irrigation renovation must be done simultaneously with the golf course renovation from an estimate from Cary Bickler, a well known San Diego golf course architect, in 2015. That finding was confirmed by all five of the golf course architects we interviewed in 2019. The objectives that were established are: convert our irrigation to well water, replace our current irrigation lines, fix our drainage problems, improve our efficiency from 50% to 75% - 80%; increase efficiency of our maintenance on all facets, bunkers, tees, and greens; improve playability for players of all skill levels; and improve safety in the bunkers and throughout the course. These objectives will be achieved by the following scope of work: Replace the existing irrigation lines throughout the course to accommodate well water, fix the drainage system to eliminate the wet spots, and position the sprinkler heads to provide better coverage; the new irrigation items that do not currently exist, are to provide power to the well and the storage lake, power to distribute the water from the lake and constructing the lake; renovate/repair the bunkers to their correct shape; laser level all the tees; repair/renovate our greens by using USGA specified sands and reshaping them to allow for more pin placements and better maintenance; reduce six meters on the course which will save us about $54,000 per year. Our residents enjoy our course and use it heavily. We play about 20,000 rounds of golf on our course per year. With that kind of use, it is easy to see why we need some renovation and repair on the course after 35 years. While we are converting to well water and are excavating the new lines this would be the perfect time to do it. Most of the conversion/renovation will be covered by our reserves. We have been reserving for this project for several years. Part of the project will be capital improvement funds and we are contributing to those funds currently as well. The reserve portion of the project includes; replacement of the irrigation lines, drainage repairs, and renovations to the bunkers, tees, and greens. The Capital Improvement funds cover items that are "new to the world," they don't currently exist, meaning we do not provide for them in our reserves, but we do include them in our Capital Improvement contributions. These items include power to the well, power and irrigation lines to the lake storage facility, construction of the storage lake, power and pumps to supply water to the irrigation lines and a fertigation system to efficiently condition the water for the golf course. We discussed the duration of the project in our last OHCC Living article and at the Town Hall as well. It may be a nine month schedule where we will play on a nine hole course for six months, and close the course for three months. As you well know, all construction schedules can be changed by weather and many other interruptions. We are still considering other ways to phase the project which might possibly allow us to close the course for a shorter time. That is a summary of our Town Hall Meeting held on Feb. 28. There were many great pictures of our issues on the course that were taken by Morgan Golf Design. Obviously I can't show those here, but I hope you can see them on the rebroadcast on channel 1960. Fifteen years ago, a group of our residents attended the first CERT Academy in Oceanside and subsequently formed the OHCC Community Emergency Response Team. Since that time, we have become one of the best organized and equipped CERT teams in the State. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as the Incident Commander but will soon be moving to another state. The timing for this move couldn't be better because we now have a qualified and experienced volunteer to take my place. I'm talking about John Slayton, our current Operations Chief. John is retired from SCE where he was the Incident Commander for a variety of calamities involving power facilities and multi-organizational responses to transmission line emergencies. Therefore, I'm happy to announce that effective March 2, 2020, John Slayton shall assume the position of Incident Commander of OHCC CERT. Thank you for your support of OHCC CERT. ~ Bill Harms It's Time for me to Pull the Pin

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