1/28/2019 8:01 AM
Eric,
From what I see in our budget sheets, our golf courses, which are enterprise funded, do not pay for work done by our city's departments, or even internally our park's department. Our Park's department is a quasi-department receiving funds from both our city and county, and operates as an independent board, (but any decisions the board makes, must still be approved by city council and county commission. All finance, HR, employee policies, etc is dictated by the city.
There could be something in the parks department budget that might pay for those services, we seem to have one person in purchasing, HR, and up to deputy city manager that oversees Parks as a whole. There was talk of that many years ago, that we as a department would pay for those services but, it might not have happened, as the parks department stopped accepting any annual financial support from the city. Even when we have building maintenance work done by parks maintenance crews, the only thing charged to our budgets are materials.
I do wish they would fund infrastructure projects though outside of our golf fund. That is where we tend to struggle, when a project is done, and it is typically at our "Crown Jewel" course, it leaves no money for us to do any type of project.
Hope that helps.
Mel
Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO