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| OHCC LIVING | MARCH 2023 | 5 Golf Course Renovation Report We terminated our contract with Candyl Golf. They are fired from the project effective Feb. 8. As you know, I have referred to the nonperformance and other issues we have had with Candyl Golf in the last several articles that I have written in this report. As I hinted before, it takes a great deal more effort and legal processes to effectively terminate an agreement like this in order to make sure that the contractor has no legitimate claim against us. That is why it took us several months to complete all the documentation and correspondence with the several attorneys to accomplish this. That effort was partially slowed down by the fact that our contractor had hired three different attorneys at three different times. We will not hire another general contractor to replace Candyl Golf, instead we will act as our own general contractor and work with the vendors that we have been working with to date. Candyl Golf was actually an impediment to our getting the golf course done in a timely manner because we were unable to speak to the subcontractors directly due to their contract with Candyl Golf. We will complete the project with Keystone, the TOC, VDLA, OCLM, Pacific Aquascapes, Wel-Tec, Berg Electric, Baker Electric, and Rizza Engineering. We will retain VDLA as the project manager because there is so much history on the project it would be too costly and time consuming to bring a new PM up to speed. Pacific Aquascapes designed the lake and prepared the construction drawings and have assembled the reports necessary to submit to the City of Oceanside for a permit to construct the lake. Working directly with Pacific Aquascapes, PAC, will enable us to move in a timely manner to get the permit for the lake. Candyl Golf was trying to get out of providing the required reports to the city, or we would have the permit by now. Wel-Tec is the vendor that was going to supply the well pump to Candyl, however, they will now contract with the HOA. We have worked with Wel-Tec before and found them to be a good vendor. By removing Candyl Golf from the design and communication with the vendors, who are the real experts, we will have direct control and input to do the job correctly and in a timely manner. We have a direct contract with Berg Electric who will be providing the power from Leisure Village Way to the lake, and from the lake to the well. Berg Electric is a very large and professional company that will be able to do this job for us and they have all the expertise that is needed to do a project of this size. SDGE will provide the transformer at Leisure Village Way in the cut-out that you have seen us provide, near the park, well over a year ago. It takes a tremendous amount of cable to move that power up to the well and Berg Electric is an expert in doing this kind of work. The biggest problem to completing the electrical work, to this date, has been a switch gear lead time of over 60 weeks. Working together with Berg we were able to convert the switchgear to using all of the components that are manufactured here in the San Diego area. These are the OEM manufacturers that were supplying the large equipment brands, such as Siemens. They reduced our lead time to 14 weeks versus over 60 weeks. That puts us back on a reasonable timetable. We will complete the punch list that Candyl did not do, with O' Connell and VDLA. OCLM will also complete the stub outs to irrigate the slopes on the golf course so that we can replace the plants that were damaged due to a lack of water when Candyl renovated the irrigation lines. In order to complete all of this work, we will be using the retention money that we withheld from Candyl Golf during the renovation project. We will also use the funds that were set aside to construct the lake, only a small portion of which, has been spent to date. This will enable us to cover most of the costs. If the actual costs exceed the money set aside, those extra costs will be charged to Candyl as contract damages. Obtaining the permits and starting construction can begin soon. However, if there are any legal proceedings, they will play out over time, but that will not delay completion of the lake and the renovation which will begin as soon as possible. Most of you could see this termination developing, but we tried to give Candyl Golf every conceivable opportunity to complete his deficiencies and he continuously refused to do so. We also explained all this to all three of his attorneys in succession, which also was time consuming. Many of you may feel we should have done this a long time ago and we can't disagree with that, but we did it this way in order to protect the association from any counterclaims from Candyl Golf. Thank all of you for your support of this complex and very important project. We have had the need for this project for many years, but we needed to identify the water source first and we did that with the well. We here in OHCC deal with many contractors for painting, roofing, asphalt, general construction, and landscaping, but we have never dealt with a contractor this argumentative and difficult to deal with. We look forward to completing this project without all of his distractions and obfuscations. By Don Lopez, Golf Course Renovation Committee Chairman

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