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4 | OHCC LIVING | NOVEMBER 2021 | Golf Course Renovation Report I have had requests for more information on scheduling and costs than have been provided in past reports. I will provide more specific information this month. It was more important in past reports to explain how and why we were building the course in this way, and how we got to this point, with an excellent well and fully renovated golf course. We have included two spreadsheets on our OHCC website, one for the renovation and one for the well conversion and lake construction. For our purposes here, I will list contract commitments we have made to the various contractors, but not the individual payments that have been made as of today. The payments are listed on the spreadsheets. They would consume too much space in this article. I assumed most people would be more interested in the total agreements made to- date. The agreements made as of today are as follows: Renovation Candyl Golf $2,356,003 Change Order#1 $50,000 Increased Material Costs Change Order #2 $20,000 Second Booster Pump Change Order #3 $4,079 Stub Outs in Residential Fingers Baker Electric $12,636 Engineering Support Booster Pump Baker Electric $42,776 Construction Booster Pump VDLA $145,000 Construction Mgmt. Watkins Environ. $17,505 Asbestos Pipe Removal & Disposal Well Conversion & Lake Construction Candyl Golf $455,000 Change Order #1 $130,024 Pump Upsizing Well Tec $25,400 Well Quality and Volume Test Baker Electric $21,600 Well Pump Power Design We expect only a few more new charges from our contractors. We will receive the actual cost soon for running the electrical service from the transformer on Leisure Village Way to the well head. The costs we have now are preliminary. Candyl Golf will take over at that point, then connect to the well head, and the pump house near the lake as part of their contract. We have had several increases in material costs due to the shortages caused by the pandemic disruptions. These have included our HDPE piping, our pumps, sprinkler heads, and now locating enough sod to finish the grassing. In addition to those shortages a couple of our increases have included design changes we have approved to assure better irrigation for both the golf course and the residential areas on the fingers surrounding the golf course. I am referring to the upsizing of our pumps in order to irrigate faster during the Super Off Peak Hours, and adding another booster pump to provide the pressure to irrigate the whole course with fresh water during construction, and to serve as a back-up in the future. The scheduling shown on the project schedule on our website is not accurate. The shortages I enumerated above in our cost data have disrupted the schedule as well. The progress is as follows on the front 9: The greens are built and enlarged, the drains have been installed, the USGA gravel is installed, the USGA Specified sand is in place, all awaiting arrival of the sod to complete the grassing. The tees are all leveled, the bunkers are all reshaped and moved as appropriate. The bunker sand will be finished as the last item. All the main irrigation lines are in and the laterals and heads are being installed as they arrive. The booster pumps are installed and were successfully tested last week. Candyl Golf is now using the booster pumps to flush the lines. The back 9 is as follows: The greens have been built and enlarged, the tees are all leveled, except the 18th tee for which the design is being finalized now, the drains are installed, the USGA gravel and sand is installed, the bunkers are shaped and moved as appropriate, and the bunker sand will be the last item completed. The main irrigation lines are in, and we are awaiting the detailed lake design. Then Candyl will obtain a grading permit, which may take 45 days, after which the lake will be excavated and completed. As you can see, it is difficult to set an absolute finish date until Candyl obtains enough sod for the grassing and finishes the lake construction. This should give you a better idea of the costs involved and the scheduling issues. There have rarely ever been cost increases as high as those we are currently experiencing in commodities such as copper and steel. That is why our electrical costs are so astronomical. I have been in construction materials and contracting for over 40 years, but we have never seen increases this high. We can work through this situation because we have been conservative over the years, which will enable us to absorb this kind of a rare shock. By Don Lopez, Golf Course Renovation Committee Chairman

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