Tom sent out this email encouraging people to speak out against the new golf contract with Landscapes Unlimited. I did hear late last week that Tom was planning something in retaliation for talks falling through on selling his equipment to the city. Tuesday’s council meeting should be interesting.
Dakota Golf Passholders,
First of all, on behalf of Dakota Golf Management, we would like to thank you for your support over the past 23 years.  We could not have been as successful as we were without the support of our loyal customers.
We would like to give an update on the new golf course management contract as it pertains to Dakota Golf.  While initially accepting of the City’s decision, Dakota Golf is no longer supporting the selection.  Please join us at the Prairie Green clubhouse tonight, Monday, December 18 from 5-7 to discuss the golf course management contract that will be voted on by the City Council tomorrow night.
We hope that you will spread the word and get your golfing friends to come to Prairie Green tonight and, more importantly, to come to the City Council meeting on Tuesday, December 19 at 7 PM at the City Council chambers on 10th and Dakota.
Thank you for your support over these many years and we hope to see you tonight at Prairie Green.
Tom and Dakota Golf Staff
Is Tuesday’s meeting slated to be recorded?
They are always recorded and streamed live online and on citylink.
This matter, as are all Huether matters, is very suspicious. I hope Dakota Golf hangs around for when the new contractor gets fired.
This saga just continues to get weirder and more suspicious. At first, it really felt to me like LU and DG had some sort of back-door, handshake agreement in keeping DG on board to run the courses under the LU company. But now it certainly seems that probably isn’t the case.
Then you’ve got this whole issue on why the city is even involved in negotiating purchasing equipment, if that’s the responsibility of the management company.
I wish I didn’t have a conflict, so I could head to Prairie Green today.
Sounds like Tom JanSa is a little bitter.
Good riddance.
will heuther send the police over to the golf course to stop this meeting from happening on city property?
Another fine display of MMM’s business acumen.
I hope this exchange is more civil than the MMM/Walsh dust up at the Miranda Lambert concert the other night.
kearney is a buffoon. clearly the parks board wasn’t qualified to assess the rfp. plus the dude from LU claiming Great Life is “in for a fight” just proves how messy and unrealistic this is.
i’m not sure what they can offer great life members to play these 2 courses more than once in awhile.
This could put the “Taupe Housing Society of Conformity” vote up for grabs….
MMM- please email me, would love to hear this one. Two hot heads having it out over Coors Light and mediocre Bro country music. LOL.
mediocre bro country implies there is actually good bro country.
I went to the meeting. Attendance was about 100 people. Turns out the contract says the city will own the equipment but LU must buy it. Weird? I spoke and advised Mr. Jansma to load up his equipment and store it. In these cases, the city seizes everything and hides it. It can be proven in court who owns it but the city ignores the courts. I also advised that the mayor is famous for rejecting public comment, the council is just puppets, and that the mayor has full veto power. I asked Mr. Jansma to run for mayor and fire the parks director. Kearney and Jamison were present. There was one reporter but he didn’t stay for a T time.
@observer – I too can’t for the life of me think how they are even going to compete with GreatLife. There’s just so little in that value proposition compared to GL. They’d have to price significantly lower than GreatLife to get me to even think about switching, because of all the other benefits you get through GL.
I’m givin’ up on golf, cuz golf’s givin’ up on me. -M.L.
I heard GL has night golf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiK-urOTlHk
LU is low bidder but theyll come back later with contract increases. It’s like firing the city clerk and replacing her with 10 employees. LU is not buying equipment for 3 golf courses. The city will own it but isn’t buying it. Reminds me of when the city stole a contractor crane and moved it around town hiding it. Circuit court ordered them to return it. They didn’t. The city will own golf courses equipment but it will be because it was seized.
Dakota Golf is a local company that operated the courses for 23 years. A local company didn’t build the Denty because there was no local experience. This contract should go to DG or someone local. Landscapes Unlimited is a Texas or Minnesota company. Nobody knows for sure. They have no golf course operations experience and seem to be a paper corporation. This is one case where Huether should forego his bribe.
I heard a conversation the other day about Tom Walsh. Lets just say he’s a piece of work.
Look your facts up about LU before y’all backhand them! They’ve been in it longer then DG. They needed a “changeâ€. The equipment has been there for 20 years JUST like all of GL courses. LU has no problem coming in their and turning hose three courses into a GREAT courses where you don’t have to call in a week ahead or it doesn’t take 6 hours to play 18 holes
Just finished watching tonites council meeting. You called this one two weeks ago Scott. What a can of worms this is turning into. Those councilors who thought they could ramrod this through are now faced with political suicide. Do they do what secret rfp’s want, or do they do the common sense thing and not fix sonething that is not broken? Whoever chooses the secret rfp solution, then that councilor can kiss his or her political future goodbye. Guaranteed.
You can build an events center with inferior siding. You can contract with a company tied to an OSHA investigation and that’s okay, too. You can even blame the increase in crime merely on meth as well. You can also even ignore the demands of a quit claim deed… But mess with my golf and there will be hell to pay!
#WeGotPriorities
LU Will get the contract… Those three courses will be in better playing conditions in with NEW equipement to get the necessary jobs done
i personally have no doubt LU would do a great job. however the golf ‘landscape’ has been changed in the area in no small part by Great Life. i don’t see any way either LU or DGM can compete with great life financially. they can offer a very nice alternative, but i have serious doubts they’ll lure enough great lifers to have a positive financial impact for the city. we will still be subsidizing courses (which i’m ok with to a certain extent) but now we get the bonus of owing mowers, aerators, hoses, etc. the bigger issue here is the process and the idiots who tried to push it thru. kearney is incompetent, turbak is in the mayors pocket, i don’t trust the mayor at all, and i think selberg got played. maybe this was finally the wakeup call for some of the councilors.
capital A isn’t me but he;s way better at shittposting than me ever. Chapeau monsieur \