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Article: Panel considers ways to improve state-owned golf courses
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- October 6, 1999
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State-owned golf courses could be self-supporting if an additional
$6 million is appropriated for improvements and marketing, lawmakers
were told Tuesday.
The House Appropriations and Budget Committee's Natural Resources
and Regulatory Services Subcommittees is reviewing House Interim
Study 99-1, in which Reps. Randall Lee Erwin, D-Nashoba, and Joe
Hutchison, D-Jay, requested a study of how state lodges and golf
courses operate. Erwin chairs the natural resources subcommittee, and
Rep. Mike Mass, D-Hartshorne, chairs the regulatory services
subcommittee.
Erwin noted that there has been talk in recent years either that
the golf courses should be privatized or the state should make a ...