Riverview Golf Club hangs on by a thread
Motion to close down defeated, course ran by volunteers for now
After announcing two weeks ago at an emergency meeting it is $405,000 in debt, the Riverview Golf Course held another meeting Thursday night to get a vote from members to determine the course’s fate.
While several opinions were brought to the table, a motion put forward to close down was defeated following the frustration and disbelief of several members in attendance.
A motion was then brought forth to put a committee together, including Redcliff town Coun. Chris Czember, to bring a viable plan forward in hopes of saving the course.
“No mud slinging,” he said in what he hopes to happen when the committee gets underway.
“It got a little heated in here today but that shows there is passion for the course, too.”
Richard Lant has been spearheading efforts to save the course for the past six weeks, and commended Czember for stepping forward to volunteer time as a town representative on the committee.
“I’m a little bit biased in this because I just spent six weeks on this and I thought we had what was a very viable plan,” said Lant.
However, the business plan was defeated at town council’s meeting on Monday night and no one knows why because the decision was made incamera and can’t be released to the public.
“We just wanted to know what it would’ve taken,” he said.
“We could’ve solved this tonight. We gave them a plan that next year we would be at a breakeven because we’d believe we’d go from 222 members to 180.”
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