Joe Logan of the Inky has written an article on the current state of the city's munis with comments from Liberty Golf, the successor lease operator, about a maintenance budget increase for Cobbs Creek granted by the city and comments from the Executive Director of the Fairmount Park Commission conceding that the courses are in a holding pattern until a political decision has been made about the long term future.
NOW is the time for us at GCA to speak up:
From the article:
If you're a regular at one of Fairmount Park's six city-owned golf courses and you've got strong feelings about how things are going, now is not a bad time to pipe up.
"They say nothing," Barry Bessler, the city's point man on the golf courses, said last week, referring to the denizens of Cobbs Creek, FDR, et al.
"I have not taken one phone call, good or bad, in the past year," said Bessler, chief of staff for the Fairmount Park Commission. "I don't know whether the regulars are used to the ups and downs at the courses, or whether they don't care, or whether they just figure these are municipal courses and you get what you pay for."
"Here's the thing," Bessler said. "They are municipal courses, and they are what they are."
If you'd like Bessler and the Park Commission to hear your thoughts, e-mail him at fairmountpark.info@phila.gov, or write him at Fairmount Park Commission, 1 Parkway, 10th Floor, 1515 Arch St., Philadelphia 10102.
Here's the link to the article:
www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/13680232.htm