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Full Time Assistant: <br /> In 1998 my assistant superintendent resigned to start his own business. This was a full time <br /> regular position. This spring when I brought up replacing this position, I was told that the council <br /> was not approving any full time new hires. <br /> Since I have had surgery on my left hand and soon will have surgery on my right, there will be <br /> many functions that only a full time assistant will be able to cover. When it comes right down to it <br /> I would think the city would want to be covered with some kind of backup incase I became ill or <br /> was hurt. <br /> The doctors told me I may have waited to long to have surgery on my left hand and that it may <br /> take a year if ever to recover. I do not want to take the same chance by putting off the procedure <br /> on my dominant right hand. My surgery is scheduled for the end of August, so I need to know <br /> now if a new assistant would be approved. <br /> Addendum: August 13, 1999 <br /> The 50 horsepower motor and several of the irrigation pump controls have burned out. I am <br /> currently watering the course with fire hoses and rain from mother nature. The closest matching <br /> motor was found in St. Louis and will arrive Saturday morning. The service tech from the <br /> previous pump company will help me install the new motor this weekend. The cost will be three <br /> to four thousand dollars. <br /> If the sun comes back out and we do not have the pump running I will have to close the course <br /> temporarily. Obviously, these situations need to be resolved in the future before they reach the <br /> crisis point. The new motor in no way fixes this pump station. It is a stop gap measure that may <br /> last a week, a month, a year. The pumps and the controls are still inadequate as shown in the <br /> lawsuit and the entire system needs to be replaced. <br />