Moraga Country Club 1600 St Andrews Drive Moraga ... - Golf Fusion
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Manager’s Report<br />
What a great summer of activities for our Membership here at<br />
<strong>Moraga</strong> <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Club</strong>. We have had record attendance at our member<br />
golf events, and our youth program has been fantastic. Over 600<br />
young adults have participated in swim team, junior tennis and junior<br />
golf clinics and events, the place has been hopping. We have done<br />
our last swim meet for the year and we wish our MCC Waves best of<br />
luck at the OMPA Championships this year. Tennis has been extremely<br />
popular with ten USTA teams and many great events put on<br />
by our tennis staff. The annual <strong>St</strong>ead Open tennis tournament starts<br />
August 4 th and will be a fun-filled week of great tennis play.<br />
Please also mark your calendars for August 15 th . Diamond Dave will be here at the pool<br />
and it will be a great party, so please RSVP now to ensure your spot.<br />
We are beginning our budget process for the 2010 fiscal year. MCC is financially strong<br />
and we will continue to be so in the years to come.<br />
Please join us for lunch and dinner, as the Chef has just put in a new menu. See you at<br />
the club.<br />
Frank J. Melón CCM CCAM RPA CEM<br />
GM / COO <strong>Moraga</strong> <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Club</strong><br />
(925) 631-1901 Fax: (925) 376-7878<br />
<strong>Club</strong>house Update<br />
In the update last month I mentioned<br />
that we were about to enter<br />
one of the most important<br />
phases of the clubhouse development<br />
process, namely, selection<br />
of the architect. This phase is<br />
critical because selection of the<br />
right architect will allow us to<br />
avoid many potentially costly<br />
and/or time consuming issues<br />
down the road. Any of you who<br />
have remodeled a home that involved<br />
the use of an architect<br />
know how critical this selection<br />
can be both in producing excellent<br />
results, or, if poorly selected,<br />
a result that is well less than excellent.<br />
Because this decision is so important,<br />
we are making it with great<br />
care and diligence. We first identified<br />
a group of architects experienced<br />
in clubhouse projects or<br />
directly related public structures.<br />
The list was developed based on<br />
the personal knowledge and experience<br />
of our committee members<br />
with the various architect<br />
and/or market reputation. Each<br />
architect then received what is<br />
known as a Request for Proposal<br />
(“RFP”) which had been prepared<br />
by our Project Manger. The RFP<br />
lists in very specific detail the<br />
types of information we want<br />
each architect to provide including<br />
directly related experience,<br />
team members who would be<br />
assigned, thoughts on vision and<br />
process and, of course, the proposed<br />
fee.<br />
The RFP went out to eleven architects.<br />
Two declined to respond<br />
and we received nine excellent<br />
proposals. We met as a committee<br />
to review all the proposals<br />
on July 10 and although the decision<br />
was quite difficult, we cut<br />
the list to five. We are now<br />
scheduling to interview all five<br />
over two evenings, July 27 and<br />
28. The final selection will take<br />
place after these interviews.<br />
Once selected and engaged, the<br />
architect will begin what is<br />
known as the “design development”<br />
process, also a critical<br />
step in setting the stage for the<br />
future. In this step, the architect<br />
gathers information from<br />
the committee, members, the<br />
Town, staff, etc. and begins to<br />
develop a definitive design that<br />
addresses the needs of all the<br />
various interest groups in both<br />
form and function. It is here<br />
where the vision takes real<br />
shape and thus becomes a very<br />
exciting step in the process.<br />
It is our hope to have the architect<br />
engaged by the early part of<br />
August such that the design development<br />
phase can begin soon<br />
thereafter.<br />
Next month I will discuss further<br />
steps in the process and will<br />
make some prediction as to construction<br />
timing and grand opening.<br />
As always, please feel free to<br />
contact me or any member of<br />
the Committee (Don Maddison,<br />
Rick Nedell, Matt Rei, Rich Bartlett<br />
and Allen Sayles) if you have<br />
any comments or questions.<br />
Tom Engberg, Chair<br />
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General <strong>Club</strong><br />
MCC & Public Safety<br />
We are well into the vacation season<br />
now that school is out. As a reminder,<br />
Community Patrol would like to know<br />
when you are away. We will watch<br />
your house while you are away.<br />
Merely complete a “Security Request” and drop it off at the<br />
front desk in the club house or at the Community Patrol<br />
Office. It is also a good idea to let neighbors know you are<br />
gone so they too may report suspicious activity near your<br />
house. Either stop your mail and paper or have someone<br />
pick it up for you. Our goal is to have you come home and<br />
have no problems at your house.<br />
With school being out and the swim team practices,<br />
there is a lot of vehicular and pedestrian traffic around the<br />
club house and community. Please be aware of your<br />
speed and the activity around you. It only takes a split<br />
second to cause an injury to yourself or someone else that<br />
will affect you for the rest of your life!<br />
And for the pedestrians in our neighborhood: You too<br />
have certain obligations for your safety. Be alert to the<br />
traffic around you and on the streets and parking lots.<br />
Never assume the driver of a car sees you. Be alert and<br />
be responsible for your actions too! Parents; please<br />
share some of these basic safety rules with your children.<br />
<strong>St</strong>uart O. Mahler, Public Safety Director<br />
Current number of golf associate memberships for sale: 15<br />
Association Update:<br />
Irrigation<br />
• We have scheduled weekly irrigation on all slopes<br />
and completed our yearly slope clean-up<br />
• It is that time of year to check irrigation components<br />
for effciency to help conserve water usage during the<br />
warmer weather. If you notice irrigation running excessively,<br />
please report it.<br />
Turf<br />
• Lawns will be mowed on a weekly basis<br />
• Edging of lawns will be done every other week<br />
All lawns have been fertilized during the month of July<br />
(except those requesting otherwise)<br />
Pruning and Detail Schedule – August 2009<br />
7-27 / 8-2 621 – 789 Augusta Dr ( odd only )<br />
8-3 / 8-9 501-505 Augusta Dr, 545 – 619 Augusta Dr,<br />
624 – 674 Augusta Dr ( even only )<br />
Tamarisk<br />
8-10 / 8-16 Lower and Upper Spyglass Gleneagle and<br />
Greenbriar<br />
8-17 / 8-23 Cypress Point Way<br />
8-24 / 8-30 <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Dr<br />
Enhancement projects<br />
We have been evaluating landscape areas throughout <strong>Moraga</strong><br />
<strong>Country</strong> <strong>Club</strong> for areas to change from lawns of higher<br />
water usage to plant material of lower water usage.<br />
Work Order Requests<br />
Requests will be scheduled in an efficient matter or based on<br />
their urgency.<br />
Thank you<br />
-Jon Plotnick, ValleyCrest Maintenance<br />
Serve The <strong>Club</strong> ~ Be A Committee<br />
Volunteer!!<br />
The <strong>Club</strong> has 10 standing committees that oversee<br />
just about every aspect of the <strong>Club</strong>, from the golf<br />
course, tennis, the clubhouse to the architecture<br />
and landscaping of the community. Each committee<br />
charter requires that the Board of Directors approve<br />
the committee members and members are<br />
encouraged to get involved in a committee that<br />
interests you. Please contact the office if you are<br />
interested in serving on a committee and we will<br />
send you a committee volunteer form and list of all<br />
the committees and their purposes. For those<br />
committee members who presently serve, thank<br />
you for giving so freely of your time to help make<br />
the <strong>Club</strong> a better place to live and play!<br />
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