The course is about a mile from the ocean, and so wind is a constant. The result is an open, links-style course that feels ‘natural’ and fits in with its coastal plain surroundings. Golf has been played here since the 1960s but due to its location between the Santa Clara River and Ventura Harbor, drainage issues caused Richardson to redesign the whole course when the city hired him in 2001. For us, it’s a significant win.Olivas Links is a Forrest Richardson designed muni course in Ventura, CA that opened in 2008. It allows the city to do some improvements they were planning to do but not for a few more years. “And, here we are again partnering with the city to solve a complex problem. “The city of Greeley has proven over and over again to be a tremendous partner with us,” Pilch said. The school will sit on an 88-acre parcel in the area of the golf course, and the size offers “plenty of land to manipulate what needs to be done there with the golf holes, with the building and to protect the building and cars from golf balls,” the superintendent said, adding “we have a lot of good acreage there.”
BOOMERANG GOLF COURSE UPDATE
The district will provide an update on the property and the school project next month. 14 board meeting the plan is to build the new holes and then remove the old holes to minimize any disruption at the course.
The city will pay a one-time cost of $7.5 million from its water enterprise and general funds for its capital project work.ĭistrict 6 Superintendent Deirdre Pilch said during the district’s Dec. Gates said three to five holes at the course will be impacted by the swap.Īccording to the proposed agreement, District 6 will pay $1.7 million for the construction of the new fairways and greens and water features. Gates said he doesn’t know a timeline for when construction might begin at the course. “We’ll reconstruct them and reline them and build a conveyance system to be more aesthetically pleasing,” Gates said. The city benefits with the chance to rebuild the non-potable water infrastructure, including fixing the leaky ponds to make them more efficient. Gates said the benefit for the district is a better parcel for the new school, which is expected to open in fall 2022. “I think it’s a win-win,” Greeley Mayor John Gates said. The “new golf fairways will have lined water features, be equal or better in play than the current course configuration, more water wise and safer for all,” also according to city documents. A 2017 analysis estimated that more than 250-acre feet of water are wasted through pond seepage and inefficient systems. The city would also receive 25 acres, located farther west on the Boomerang South 9 property, where it will relocate and reconstruct golf course holes, irrigation facilities and non-potable system infrastructure, according to city documentation.Ĭity information on the infrastructure noted the city water and sewer department has suspected for more than two decades that there was significant leakage in the ponds in this section of the course. Map showing land in question for the Greeley-Evans School District 6 and city of Greeley intergovernmental agreement for land exchange at Boomerang Golf Course.
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