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ADDENDUM TO <br /> Agenda Section: 9 .E. <br /> MOS REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Report Number. 93-500C <br /> STAFF REPORT Report Date: 3/22/92 <br /> Council Action: <br /> 0 Special Order of Business <br /> CI'T'Y COUNCIL MEETING DATE MARCH 22 , 1992 0 Public Hearings <br /> ❑ Consent Agenda <br /> l Council Business <br /> Item Description: Consideration of Approving the Selection of Firm to Conduct the <br /> Market Analysis for the Proposed 9 Hole Golf Course <br /> Administrators Review/Recommendation: <br /> - No comments to supplement this report <br /> - Comments attached. <br /> Explanation/Summary_(attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br /> SUMMARY; <br /> • <br /> Four marketing firms responded to the City's request for proposal to <br /> conduct a thorough market analysis and facility operation estimates for the <br /> proposed golf course. The firms are: <br /> FIRM FEE <br /> Effective Golf Course Systems $6, 500 plus expenses <br /> Edina, Minnesota not to exceed $300 <br /> Golf Resource Associates $6, 800 <br /> Atlanta, Georgia • <br /> THK Associates, Inc $6,780 plus travel <br /> Greenwood Village,. Colorado and misc. expenses <br /> National Golf Association $14, 000 <br /> Jupiter, Florida <br /> Each of the firms have excellent reputations and received very good <br /> recommendations from their clients. Effective Golf Course systems is a <br /> relatively new firm (operational for four years) , but has completed market <br /> analysis reports for Inver Grove Heights' municipal course, City of Edina's <br /> new 9 hole municipal course, Cannon Falls and•New Prague municipal courses. <br /> While the other firms are ones that have conducted market studies in many <br /> states, both for private and public courses, and would undoubtedly do a <br /> fine job for the City of Mounds View, EGCS would present a local <br /> perspective stemming from many years of working within the Minnesota • <br /> municipal golf course arena. <br /> 4111a-r ° t3 ) <br /> mantha Orduno, C ty Administrator <br /> RECOMMENDATION: <br /> Motion to approve the selection of Effective Golf Course Systems to conduct a market analysis for the proposed golf <br /> course and authorize the City Administrator and the Mayor to enter into an agreement for the study at a cost not to <br /> exceed $6,800 and to be charged to the Golf Course Development Account, 698-4120-303. <br />