Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Parks and Recreation Commission has approved a $21,400 contract with a golf course architect firm that will design $300,000 in improvements to the Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course.
Parks and Recreation Department director, Doug Hogan says the work had just finished a $148,000 project that either improved or replaced most of the bunkers on the 18-hole golf course.
The commission had hired Herfort Norby Golf Course Architects, LLC, to design the bunker improvements.
The city park board also approved increasing the season ticket rates at Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course by $50 for 2014. The rate for a family season ticket goes from $500 to $550; for a man and wife, from $425 to $475; for one adult, from $375 to $425, for a senior; all people age 65 and older, from $350 to $400; and for a senior man and wife, from $400 to $450. Season rates for intermediate people, people ages 18 to 21, remain at $235, and for juniors, all people under age 17, $135.
Th Park Board, approved an easement agreement with the city of Jamestown to allow city workers access to some city-owned water wells in McElroy Park. City Administrator Jeff Fuchs says there would be no water bill reduction.
