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Article: GOLF COURSE ENDS FISCAL YEAR IN RED TOWN SHORTFALL IS $300,000
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2002
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While Natick residents accounted for about a third of rounds
played at the town's year-old municipal golf course, taxpayers picked
up the tab for the facility's financial shortfall, which topped
$300,000 in its first 10 months of operation.
Pitched to Town Meeting six years ago as an enterprise that would
be self-sufficient, Sassamon Trace golf course posted that shortfall
when the fiscal year ended June 30. Town documents show that little
of the shortfall was recovered in the high-use months of July and
August, leaving the town more than $300,000 in the red as the course
finished its first full year of operation at the beginning of
September.
Much of the shortfall will have to be covered by ...