When Joey Hurtuk, Phil Bojc, Les Brock and Josh Mayle teed it up last Wednesday in the Kent State Blue & Gold Alumni Golf Outing at the KSU Golf Course, it seemed like just another day of scramble golf for these four friends.
But by day’s end, the foursome was scheduling an expenses-paid trip to Pinehurst (including two rounds at famed #2) and one of the guys had the keys to a brand new $56K car.
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Last week, Northeast Ohio Golf wrote in three different stories that the Munson Township trustees, in conjunction with the Northeast Ohio Sewer District and the Geauga County Park District, have submitted an application to the Ohio EPA in an effort to obtain $5.1 million in “water clean-up funding” to purchase — and then close — the nationally-recognized Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland.
It was also reported (based on a story in the Lake County News Herald) that Todd Peterson’s investment group, FMGC LLC, paid $3.1 million for the property in December of 2009.
Those stories concluded that courtesy of taxpayer money, the investment group potentially could earn a $2 million windfall in just nine months.
But in reality, the windfall would be much greater than $2M, as the purchase price from last December was not correctly reported by the News Herald.
Mike Settles, the Media Relations Coordinator for the Ohio EPA’s Public Interest Center, replied to questions posed by Northeast Ohio Golf about the Munson Township trustee’s application to receive funding for the purchase of Fowlers Mill Golf Course, to then convert it to a park for water quality issues.
Settles’ reply disputes one very important fact presented in the story written by the Lake County News Herald: no decision has been made regarding the proposal, and no money has been given to anyone.
Northeast Ohio Golf contacted Governor Ted Strickland’s office today to get comment from the governor on the Ohio EPA’s financing of the Fowlers Mill Golf Course purchase referenced in the story yesterday.
Spokesperson Amanda Wurst replied today, saying discussions about the closing of the golf course may be premature.
In what looks to be an extreme example of both government-waste and a suspect real estate deal, the Munson Township trustees are planning to purchase and then close the nationally-recognized Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland at the end of the 2011 golf season.
But how it’s being purchased — and how that purchase is being financed — is the most appalling part of the story.
