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City to seek new golf course management

CLOVIS — Pending approval at tonight’s Clovis city commission meeting, the city will soon hire new management for its 18-hole municipal golf course.

The city has received word that Real Golf LLC, operated by Charlie Maciel, plans to transition out of its management of Colonial Park Golf Course. Commissioners are expected to look into creating a Request For Proposal recommendation committee to move forward.

The meeting is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library.

Maciel has been operating the golf course since May 2011, a few weeks after the city purchased the former Chaparral Country Club. Until that point, he had operated the nine-hole Clovis Municipal Golf Course, which was absorbed into Hillcrest Park following the Chaparral purchase. Attempts to reach Maciel on Wednesday were unsuccessful.

The RFP recommendation committee would include Kent Carruthers, Debbie Abrego, Wayne Burch, George Jones and Parks and Recreation Director Mark Dayhoff. City Manager Justin Howalt and Purchasing Agent Bryan Jones would serve on the committee in non-voting roles.

The plan is to issue an RFP on Oct. 4 with a Dec. 13 submission deadline. Interviews would take place Jan. 14-15, with the bid to be awarded Feb. 7.

Real Golf will continue operations until its successor is found, Howalt said.

Also today:

• The meeting will be preceded by a 4:45 p.m. executive session to discuss personnel matters and the acquisition or disposal of property.

• A request for a waiver on distance requirements for a liquor license. Red Door Brewing Company is considering downtown Clovis, specifically, the former Levine’s Building, for a microbrewery and restaurant and would like to gauge interest with one-time beer and food sales at the location.

The building is within 300 feet of the Potters House church. The waiver would only apply to Red Door, which would pay a $100 vendor fee to use the property and provide insurance for its proposed event.

• A request to issue bid documents for Phase 1C of the effluent reuse pipeline project. The phase would take the project from Yucca Middle School to Greene Acres Park. The pipeline allows for city- and school-owned facilities to use wastewater treated below the standards of drinking water, but acceptable for watering fields and other municipal uses. Howalt called the phase a pretty substantial one for adding properties — Marshall Middle School, James Bickley Elementary, the Pierce athletic complex behind Bickley, Dennis Chavez Park, Clovis High School, Clovis Freshman Academy, Cameo Elementary, the former Parkview Elementary and the unnamed city park along 14th Street adjacent to the former Parkview.

The phase will cost $2.8 million, with $1.7 million coming from a grant, $190,000 from a loan and $900,000 from the city.

In a separate agenda item, the city wants permission to apply for $3.3 million in state water trust board assistance for Phase 1D, which would expand the system from 21st and Thornton streets to the Bob Spencer Complex.

• A bid for $92,670.44 for bid administration and construction observation of the second phase of Seventh Street improvements. The work would be between Norris and Maple streets, and Souder Miller and Associates would handle the task. Souder Miller also plans to bid on the project and seeks city permission to do so.

• Authorization for the city to intervene in EPCOR Water New Mexico’s upcoming rate case before the state Public Regulation Commission. Intervention allows the city to be party to all proceedings with the rate case — something the city has done for the last 30 years.

A separate agenda item would hire Larry Blank of TAHOEconomics, LLC. to be an expert witness in the proceedings at a cost not to exceed $60,000. Blank has consulted on previous PRC rate actions with the city.

• Introduction of an ordinance to alter the city’s traffic ordinance to reflect 20 amendments made to the state code by the 2018 Legislature.

• A request to issue bid documents for the potential sale of the former Levine’s Building on Main Street. The property would be advertised Sept. 23 and 30, with proposals due Oct. 11.

• Presentations for Constitution Week and the August yards of the month.

• Quarterly reports from Clovis MainStreet and the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce.

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