Riverview Golf Club hangs on by a thread
By None on October 26, 2018.
Justin Seward Alberta Newspaper Group 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 in-camera 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 break-even because we’d believe we’d go from 222 members to 180.” See Kiboshed, Page A2 The plan involved an overhaul on all course operations, including rewriting the bylaws, employment files, performance reviews and budgets. Lant did not know what the plan was going to be moving forward because he resigned from the board due to him being detrimental for the golf course’s future. The course has been running on volunteers since Oct. 20 and is opened on a day-to-day basis. Acting president Dean Schmaltz took a list of volunteers that are willing to come work the tills, sell beer and take in green fees. 17-16
