Wine Country Times

City of Santa Rosa Mayor Chris Rogers formed a Bennett Valley Golf Course Ad Hoc Committee last month to discuss changes to the golf course.

On March 31 and April 6, ad hoc meetings transpired to lay out expectations, bond debt, potential restructuring and have discussions with golf consultants. 

"Realistically what we're expecting is based on how the mayor's original proposal for the establishment of this ad hoc committee, we would be looking to probably conclude operations of the ad hoc in June once we've completed the solicitation for that operations analysis," said Jason Nutt, the assistant city manager/operations and transportation of Santa Rosa, in regards to the updates of the Bennett Valley Golf Course at an April 13 City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting.

Nutt also said at the meeting that a golf course tour will occur in April. 

"We are meeting with ad hoc members to do a tour of the golf course with the idea that we would be able to demonstrate and show them some of the areas of capital concern and some of the areas of operational concern," Nutt said during the council meeting. "So that as we get into this development of the scope of work for the upcoming solicitation relating to the operational analysis that they have a clear picture and understanding of what those concerns are."

Just after that Nutt talked about the endgame for their plans.

"Then later this month and into May we're going to be finalizing that scope of work with the idea that we would be able to come back to council at the end of May or early June to get approval on that scope of work and approval to release the solicitation to the community of consultants at large," Nutt said. "We haven't gone further than that to determine exactly how we would go through the process of selecting or interviewing those potential proposers and we would expect that that will be in some of the upcoming meetings that we would talk in more detail about how we might go through that process."

The operational consultant solicitation for the course will be in April and May. In June there will be a release of consultant solicitation.