Editor:
As an occasional golfer and Sechelt taxpayer I attended the standing room only meeting on Jan. 14 to hear the plans mayor and council have for the Sechelt golf course, now it is in receivership.
Apparently a citizens' advisory committee is to study the situation and make recommendations. This will no doubt take some time. In the mean time the District will administer the running of the course.
One of the options would be for the District to permanently take over and run it. As a taxpayer I feel that municipal government should stay away from these types of endeavours. At a time when the public is asking for financial restraint it would be wrong to ask all taxpayers to subsidize the few of usthat do golf. I can only assume this would mean writing off the $191,000 owed to the District by the previous owner.
During the meeting one of the attendees stated that there was apparently an investor prepared to take over the course and even pay the outstanding monies owed the District. If this is in fact true, they have obviously done some research into the situation and are prepared to step up and run the course and hopefully come to some arrangement with those members who have paid their 2012 dues already.
As golf season is only several months away I would ask council to take a serious look at such a proposal, if in fact it exists. Getthe money that is owed the taxpayers of Sechelt,and let private business run the course.
The longer the delay, the more we pay.
David Edgar
Sechelt
