This is Mises Weekends with your host Jeff Deist. Our guest this weekend is David Hart, editor of Liberty Fun Books and our guest lecturer today at our Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn. His topic is Friedrich Bosteat. He's the radical we think we know from the law and the broken window fallacy, but it turns out he's so much more than that. He's actually a very serious radical both in his personal and professional life and an underappreciated theorist. So here to explain what you don't know about Friedrich Bosteat is David Hart in an outstanding 45 minute lecture. It's well worth your time. Stay tuned and have a great weekend. Henry Hazlick and Bosteat both were very important in my own intellectual development. I was a high school student in Sydney, Australia when I discovered the works of Ayn Rand and Audie von Mises and I subscribed, sent away to the Foundation for Economic Education and to Laysay Fair Books, which was based in San Francisco. And I would order boxes of books, which the postman would laboriously walk up the driveway of my parents' home in Sydney, saying, why are you buying all these books from America? Don't we produce books in Australia? Some of those books that came from the Foundation for Economic Education included their editions of Bosteat that were done in the 1960s, as well as Henry Hazlick's economics in one lesson. And that was really my introduction to free market economics, which was then closely followed by reading of Rothbard and Mises and other people. So I have a profound intellectual debt to both Bosteat and Henry Hazlick. What I want to do today is to talk to you about some aspects of Bosteat's life and thought that may not be well known to you. And I've called it the unseen radical. And this is obviously a play on words on Bosteat's last and perhaps best known work, the seen and the unseen. If you remember, Bosteat defines a bad economist as someone who just looks for the immediately obvious effects of a government policy. The good economist, however, knows that there's something deeper going on that some of the consequences will be hidden or they will be delayed or they will be difficult to immediately identify. And so he described the things that were immediately seen as the obvious, the unseen as the more complicated. But I think that can also be applied to Bosteat. He went through several periods where he was virtually unseen for his contributions, both in his own day and in today. And I want to try and unpack some of those for you. The word radical by using a number of different ways. First of all there is the radicalism of his personal style and behavior. And this doesn't come out in the biographies that I've looked at him about him. But it did come out in the correspondence, which was in our volume one. He was a really radical, unique individual. And I want to give you a flavor of that, both in his dress, his language, and his attitudes to other people and society in general. Another usage of the word radical is his innovative ideas and his theories. And one of the things that made him unseen to his own colleagues, they did not appreciate the originality and the complexity and the great worth of his theoretical work. They dismissed him as many people have done since as just a good economic journalist. So frustratingly for him, he wasn't fully appreciated and seen in his own day. And then today we have people who do see different sides of it, of Bastia. We have in free market circles, he's widely regarded for his writings of the economic sophisms, which are some of the most brilliant economic journalism ever written. Conservatives today see him as the author of the state and the law to important essays about limited government and the nature and origin of law. And the Austrians also appreciate and see him because of his quite precocious insights into subjective value theory well ahead of his time. But my argument is that there is much, much more to Bastia. And what I've been uncovering in my editing of the collected works, this is volume three, about 700 pages has just come out. This is of a projected six volume series. So about 3000 words in total. One of the problems was with seeing the true Bastia is that when Fee did their translations in the mid 1960s, they translated less than half of his work. And so there's a lot, if that's all you know about us, Bastia, you're in for a surprise and a pleasant surprise because there is so much more to the man. Let me just give you a brief list of some of the things that I think make him a radical and very interesting libertarian theorist and activist and personality. One of the first things that happened that came to my attention was when I was reading through his letters was he had an initial radicalization as a young man at a private college which had a very innovative curriculum, which shows the importance of not having a state education if you want to think critically and as a real individual. He became in his 20s somewhat of a social radical and a non-conformist outsider and he took that with him from his provincial origins to Paris when he went there in the mid 1840s, much to the consternation of his more conservative, conservative, socially conservative colleagues amongst the economic circle in Paris. Then when he was an economic journalist writing some wonderful essays attacking subsidies and economic protection and tariffs, he developed a whole new rhetoric of liberty, it's my expression, to describe his style, his rhetoric of liberty and his willingness to use harsh language to describe the bad consequences of government actions. So he would call a spade a spade or as the French say, appallé un char char to call a cat a cat. And I think there's a considerable similarity between Bastille and Rothbard because Rothbard also used harsh language to talk about how the state plundered and murdered and so on. Another factor in his radicalism is it's not well appreciated how much he was opposed to things like military expenditure and war and colonialism. And conservatives who appreciate his writings on free trade often don't want to know that this was intimately connected to his opposition to war. Another factor that made him a radical is he had utopian dreams.  He had utopian dreams about what he would do if he were made dictator for a day, which was to drastically slash government, both expenditure and its size and scope. And that wasn't the only time he did this. There are other writings where he expresses his utopian dreams to dismantle the state. Another aspect of his radicalism is his active support for the revolution that broke out in February of 1848 and the inauguration of the Second Republic. And he was very active in the Second Republic as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, but he was also willing to go out onto the streets of Paris with a little magazine that he and friends like Gustave de Molinari produced and handed out on the streets to the workers, trying to persuade them not to take the socialist ideas seriously, to think more about free markets and about private property rights. And he was on the streets of Paris twice, once in February, March, and then again in June when the troops were called out to put down the rioters and hundreds, if not thousands of people were just were killed when the French military were firing artillery down the streets of Paris to destroy the barricades. And Bastillard and some of his correspondents talks about how he was caught on the streets while he was handing out these pamphlets and what he did to try and help some of the injured people. He's also played a very important role in the Chamber of Deputies as the Vice President of the Finance Committee. They recognized his, when he was elected to the chamber in April of 1848, he was immediately appointed to this important position in the Finance Committee and he would make regular reports to the chamber about the state of French finances and he was constantly telling them, we are in a crisis, we have to cut government expenditure, we have to balance the budget and in order to do this we have to slash military expenditure, because that was the single biggest item in the budget. On top of all this, while he's agitating for free trade, while he's in the Chamber of Deputies lobbying to balance the budget, he's also realized that he had some important and original economic ideas which he was trying to put together to write his important theoretical treatise economic harmonies and the tragedy of that of course is he kept getting distracted by the political events around him, I guess you'd call a revolution a kind of distraction and he never was able to finish writing this book, he knew that he was dying, I think he was dying of throat cancer which was extraordinarily painful and he was probably on Loudonham to try and keep the pain under control and to the very end he kept writing and working on his project but he only was able to finish the first volume which was published in January of 1850 and after his death on Christmas Eve in 1850 his friends and colleagues put together the remnants of his papers in an expanded volume which was about twice the size which came out in mid-1851 but when you read through not just the sketches and chapters of the economic harmonies scattered throughout his other writings, I've found about a dozen or so key innovative economic ideas, many of them Austrian, some of them public choice, others just good economic analysis and I thought well when did he get some of these ideas, when did he start thinking in this original way and my original hunch was that when he went to Paris it was to work as a journalist and a free trade activist and that he learned economics when he was in Paris mixing with these other economists but just in the last couple of weeks as I was working through volume four for our collective works, I was trying to track when he first used some of these key economic concepts and I kept coming back to one essay that he wrote to criticise La Martin, the famous French poet and in an article that he wrote in January 1845, so before he moved to Paris he already had in his mind eight or ten of these key economic ideas already in his head so he went to Paris I think with his mind full of innovative and original ideas and it wasn't the influence of the other Paris economists around him that led him to write economic harmonies but I'll say a little bit about that more in a moment so he's an innovative theoretical economist I think ahead of his time by many years if not decades and it took someone like Rothbard back in the 1950s and 60s to see and to recognise Bastiaz's originality and to actually use him as a stimulus to in the first three or four chapters of man economy and state if you read the footnotes carefully and I love footnotes because I write too many of them in the Bastiaz translation you'll see Rothbard's debt to Bastiaz methodologically individualism and I'll say a bit more about that if you want in addition to being a theoretical or budding theoretical economist who had his career cut short by his premature death he was a theorist of classical liberal class analysis and his theory of plunder is of course one of the key terms in that theory it was he was going to write a history of plunder after he'd finished he had a plan to write three volumes the first volume he planned to write a volume called social harmonies and this was to be about how voluntary action creates cooperation and harmony in the social realm which is family the church society at large and then he found out he was running out of time and he really had to concentrate on one particular type of harmony and he decided to focus on economic harmony so it was meant to be volume two and then the history of plunder was meant to be volume three which was not just a history of plunder but a history of disharmony the first two volumes to be about harmony and how harmonies played out when free people were left free to cooperate to cooperate amongst themselves and then of course he realized that history was full of disharmony full of statist activity which created disharmony and plunder and class rule and so on and that was to be the volume of the third volume in his series so this just to give you an overview of some of the radical aspects of Bastia's thinking and I want to I won't have time to talk about all of those unfortunately because there is a book here I think and the book is slowly emerging and I'll get around to finishing it one day the other the sad thing is that most of the people who have worked on this project have died and I think I'm the last surviving member of the original team so this is like the curse of Bastia on whoever works on this project we've lost two translators and the original general editor Jacques de Garnet so wish me luck you know so that's just the overview let me just show you some of the on seeing or not seeing Bastia depends on where you're standing and what I was standing in Sydney in Australia reading Henry Hazlott and Bastia for the first time my initial reaction to Bastia was he is a very clever and smart and witty journalist and left him at that and moved on to more serious economists serious economists like Mises and Rothbard it was only when I was asked by Liberty Fund to work on this project about 12 years ago that I went back and read for the first time in French everything that Bastia had had written and I was ashamed to say I had completely misunderstood underestimated misunderstood the significance of Bastia as a serious social thinker and I'm trying to make some atonement for those those that's original sin of not paying full attention to Bastia and part of the problem is that he's such a good writer that you just swept up by his writings and you don't look deeper it's only when you start looking at it more closely and you realize how is this constructed what are the underlying ideas who is he referring to he's constantly quoting French literature which showed a deep reading of Mollier and Lafontaine and some of the other French classics and so really the perspective understanding of who and what Bastia is depends on time and place and and he's had a terrible track record of first of all he's not understood by his colleagues he's forgotten in the late 19th century practically people like Schumpeter say that he's his famous quote you know what kind of a theorist was Bastia he says I don't think he was a theorist of any kind and then even Hayek grudgingly sort of condemns him with faint praise by saying yes he was a great economic journalist it's best not to ask too much about him as a theorist you know so this is Henry Haslett economics in one lesson and we can if you've read anything if you read the introduction to this book you'll know that Haslett was deeply indebted to Bastia and he plagiarized Bastia's subtitle in the title of his book this is the edition that Arcee Hoyles he Arcee Hoyles there was a publisher of newspapers in America he started the freedom newspapers chain and he moved to Santa Ana Southern California and came across and he met Leonard Reed who was then the head of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and somehow they discovered the right the writings of Bastia in the some 19th century translations I think the the story I've read is that Leonard Reed was giving a talk for the Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles and someone came up to me and said you sound just like Frederick Bastia and he said who the hell's Frederick Bastia I never heard of him and so he went back and found these 19th century translations of of Bastia and talked to Hoyles and Hoyles was on this anti-New Deal anti-FDR campaign and saw immediately that Bastia's writings was perfectly relevant to 1940s America and so he used the printing presses of the Santa Ana Register to print these wonderful red covered editions of Bastia which I'm interested to to see Rothbard has these exact editions in the library outside as does the founder of Liberty Fund Pierre Goodrich he has copies of this and when I was here last year I took a photograph of Rothbard's copies and he he mutilated these books and here is a page from the economic sofisms where he's underlined so much stuff and then he has written magnificent at the bottom because of pure Rothbard so you know if you want to have a a charcoal go out and read some of Rothbard's comments on on Bastia but you know he so he was discovered by Hoyles and Leonard Reed in the 40s and then Rothbard through them I think discovered Bastia and Bastia has been in known by libertarians and conservatives ever since but it wasn't always that way and this I want to briefly talk about his background where he came from and you'll have to pardon some of the puns and alliterations I'm going to use like a guy in Gascony because that's how Bastia wrote his writings are full of plays on words and one of the most laborious things I had to do in editing the series was to explain his jokes in English right there's nothing funnier than a footnote that explains a joke so that's a horrible faux pas if you'll pardon the French so where did Bastia come from well as we know Paris is the center of the universe and this is you know he he came from a place that he was born in Bayonne which is in Basque country close to the Spanish border and so he grew up his his grandfather was a business man an importer an exporter and the business suffered terribly under the Napoleonic restrictions of the of during the Napoleonic wars the the other thing that's of note is that Bayonne is is Basque and and the Basque people so stupid they don't understand the benefits of nation states and borders and so they have no respect whatsoever for this artificial line drawn between Spain and France because there are Basque people who live on the northern side and there are Basque people who live on the southern side and they're just trading with their kinfolk and so Bastia grows up in a place where there is constant smuggling which drives the French shun government crazy when he um great his grandfather died his parents died when he's very young when his grandfather dies um when he's when Bastia was 25 he inherits the um his grandfather's estate Edmugran which is a very small place and he lives there for the next 20 years um he's a a local magistrate um his he was his reputation was was a he was a very good magistrate very efficient um he was intellectually curious um and he read for 20 years everything he could lay his hands on in economics in four different languages um French Italian um English and Spanish um and I'll how he got to this interest and this gift with language I'll explain in a moment when he was a young when he was about 14 his grandfather sent him to a college in Sores there was a a Benedictine Abbey in Sores which had um a college and it was a private college and what had happened was that um it was run by the Benedictines it was um turned into a military college in the late um 18th century to train young aristocrats the sons of aristocrats who wanted to go into the army and then during the French the first French revolution in the 1790s um much church property was confiscated and then sold off and some entrepreneurial um educator bought um the land and turned it into a private college and Bastille went to this private college um and this had a transformative experience on him um this is the postcard from the 19th century showing the the college and what happened was that this college was had a reputation when Bastille went there in about 18 um 14 18 15 um the college had 400 students and they came from all over the world mostly from Europe but there was a sizable contingent from England in America which is how Bastille learned English um they had a radical curriculum and they didn't teach um Latin or Greek um they taught modern languages they taught modern literature they taught music um they taught um mathematics and that's where Bastille got this love of reading he he he was a one of the one of the school prize for poetry um he also I think had a photographic memory in that he learned all this stuff this these passages from La Molière and La Fontaine and others and he could recite them uh and did repeatedly both in his his writings and also in his social uh networks so he was involved in various uh liberal salons in Paris when he was living there 1846 to 50 and he used to regale people at these liberal salons with um recitations of um classic works of um French literature but he would also do parodies um impromptu parodies where he would um change the names of some of the characters to uh the names of current politicians and make fun of them um he also learned the cello um at Sores and uh he loved the cello and took it with him and played music all the time which he'd also do at these salons in Paris much to the again the consternation of of some of the more conservative members um he also loves singing and this is where I've called this in vino libertas in wine there is liberty Bastia Beiranger and Bayonne Beiranger was a very important um political songwriter of the period um and so when Bastia leaves the College of Sores and goes back to work in his grandfather's um uh business um he begins to mix with uh liberal groups in Bayonne um at that period though this is in the early 1820s political meetings and parties were strictly banned um so the only way that you could talk this was during the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and there was uh they were trying to restore as much of the old regime as possible and the powers of the aristocracy and the powers of the church and one way that they tried to do that was to stop criticism and that was to prevent people from um discussing politics but people want to talk about politics so they would gather in bars and talk politics secretly but they would also engage in in singing songs political songs um and the places where they would go to sing these songs were bars that specialized in this and they were called gogets and um the people who wrote these political songs and these were best selling items were called Gaugetier and Béranger was one of the best selling Gaugetiers in France and um his books would sell in their thousands he made a comfortable living just writing these songs and he would publish the books with the libretto with the music the score um and the words and the trick was that the um here's some pictures of Gauget of Gauget's this is one by Dormier um and there were even Gauget's just for women these were women who would run their own Gauget's and have gatherings together and run at themselves and so on um and Béranger was a very interesting character who spent considerable time in several times he was input in prison for his ridiculing of Louis Philippe um sorry for Charles the Tent and um one of the songs that was very popular at the time that I'm sure Bastia sang in these Gauget's these these bars was a song in praise of smugglers and this is an illustration from one of the books that Béranger had published with with his songs in it um so that's a page from one of these books and this is Béranger's smuggler's song and I'll just read you the words um I won't sing you'll be pleased to know I won't sing um curse them curse them the revenue men for we bring happiness and wealth the people always toast our health they are indeed our friends yes everywhere the people are our friends yes everywhere everywhere the people are our friends men busy themselves with trade but taxes bar the way let us through exchanges will be made there will be balance this is an economic pun here there will be balance come what may providence protects us everywhere and asks that in return abundance we will share so wealth there is to earn so you can imagine singing songs or maybe you can't imagine yourself singing songs like this in a bar and of course what the police would do is they'd try if they heard people singing these songs um they would break into the bars and try and shut them down um so quite often the people who were singing the songs would have two different versions of the verse right one innocuous and one praising smuggling let's say and then if someone said oh the you know the bad guy the police are coming so they'd switch to the innocuous words and um so this sort of goes on um you know I think well this is all very well charming you know men in these 20s going off to the pub singing songs um what's the practical use of it well this is uh the um the garrison in bayon and in 1830 when bastia was 29 or so uh people that had enough of the reign of charles the 10th and he was um in the process of being overthrown by what would become the july monarchy under louis philippe but the the um the king of france was a bourbon the king of spain was a bourbon the bad the garrison in bayon was in crucial if the spanish bourbon king wanted to send troops to assist his relative the bourbon french king he would have to pass through southern france and so depending on which way the officers in the garrison went they could tip the revolution one way or the other and um bastia being a young liberal mixing in circles in bayon bayon was very keen that louis philippe have a chance to get to the throne and and i get rid of the tyrannical charles the 10th um and so what he does is he um hears that the officers are torn about which way to go whether they should support the the king um to whom they had sworn an oath of allegiance or should they support the revolution that's taking place in paris um and so what bastia does is he goes off with some friends to talk to the officers in the garrison um and they spend the night as one does you know in france is you spend the night drinking red wine and singing songs um and this is and bastia is able to persuade um the officers of the garrison to side with the revolutionaries and not to allow the um support of the bourbon overthrown bourbon king and he writes in his correspondence this is in um the fifth of august 1830 and he says the fifth at midnight i was expecting blood but it was only wine that was spilt the citadel has displayed the tricolor flag the military containment of the midi and talus has been declared has decided that of bayon the regiments down there have displayed the flag thus it is all over this evening we fraternize with garrison officers punch wine liqueurs and above all beiranger contributed largely to the festivities perfect cordiality reigned in this truly patriotic gathering the officers were warmer than we were in the same way as horses which have escaped are more joyful than those that are free so he went there and persuaded through his singing and of these political songs he was able to um participate in the first revolution of his life he was later to participate in the second revolution in 48 so this is the young bastia who you know likes to sing political songs and uh doesn't look as though he's got um anything more intellectually to offer but something happens to him in the 30s which is very interesting this is a another aspect of his um peculiar peculiarities as an individual um i don't know what he looked like before he went to paris the pictures we have of hit were him as a as a deputy a member of the chamber of deputies like the one we i saw showed you at the beginning but i think this is a postcard or a picture from the early 19th century showing how country gentlemen dressed in leiland leiland was the region where he lived and it's very heathy and even marshy in places and these people on stilts is very common in that part of the world um the reason they wore stilts was because of this heath country they were shepherds and the heath was very difficult um to walk through um and they couldn't see the sheep unless they were high higher and so they would wear stilts and they would wear walk around on these stilts and even today um in bayon and other places young men when they have market festivals will have um will get on these stilts and do jousting contests to try and knock each other off their stilts so this is seriously weird stuff but basya was a landowner he had about 250 hectares which is about 500 acres um and he he would have he had sharecroppers working his land he had other tenants and so this is what he might have looked like when he went um uh to inspect his properties and uh he would have had people like that um you know to to talk to about um how they were going and how the business was going and so on um now this is very interesting because um when he goes to paris he refused to wear the traditional clothes of his contemporary economists um they all wore black serious black black hats black coats and basya i think would have looked like this dressed like this country gentleman and there are some very interesting um comments uh by um some of his friends and colleagues when when he died they wrote obituaries of him and would reminisce about him and this is um a reminiscence by molonari um now molonari is an interesting case because he was 20 years younger than basya and molonari lived to be 92 i was born in 1819 and died in i think 1912 and he lived long enough to write obituaries for everyone he knew you know in the economists movement including basya and this is um molonari's recollection of of basya he said um they had basya was work uh molonari was working as a journalist and um the the magazine that he wrote for had reviewed um some of basya's writings very favorably and so basya went to went to visit the office and thank them personally for writing such a nice review and he ended up writing material for them which became some of the economic sophisms so this is molonari's recollection he says um we had a chance to see him when he was making his first rounds of the offices of the journals which had shown themselves to be sympathetic to the free trade cause he still hadn't taken time to visit a parisian tailor or a hatter if he'd ever thought of doing so with his long hair and his small hat his large riding jacket and his oversized umbrella one would have happily taken him for a solid farmer in the middle of sampling the marvels of the capital city but the demeanor of this farmer who was still rough around the edges was impish and witty his large dark eyes were keen and bright his brow was of medium size and somewhat square in shape as if full of ideas and bore the stamp of his thinking at first glance one got the impression that this farmer standing before us came from the country of montaigne gascony and when one's when one heard him speak one immediately recognized in him a disciple of benjamin franklin right they molonari and the other economists greatly admired benjamin franklin as a popularizer of economic ideas and that's how molonari interpreted basya so basya refuses to conform to the dress codes of the economists in paris and he persisted in wearing clothes much like this he eventually possibly as a reward for supporting louis philippe in the revolution of 1830 he was made a magistrate in lugrand which he had for between 1831 and 1845 and this is the postcard of the town square in lugrand this very tiny place only a few hundred people the the sort of canton the larger area around lugrand was only maybe 10 000 people at the most i mean let me just go back and say something more about lugrand when he was in lugrand he was incredibly intellectually curious and from as a result of his going to school in this experimental private school and he and some neighbors set up a book club which they called rather potentially the academy after plato and in the in the academy they would meet every week or so and discuss books that they had read newspaper articles and so on and basya was very important in that circle singing his songs playing his musical instrument but also challenging them constantly with his new ideas so he spends 20 years or more in in lugrand reading all this stuff and then his some of his in some of his correspondence with some of his neighbors and friends they he talks with great fondness about this time when he was free to think and and say anything he liked it's a very important part of his life but something happened to him i think around about 1843 he becomes a bit restless and i'm not quite sure what caused this restlessness perhaps he came across the writings of richard cobden and the anti-coronal league which was underway in in england and he'd read about this in the newspapers and he was really impressed with the strategies and the policies of the anti-coronal league and he eventually of course becomes one of the most important people in the french free trade movement which he leads in 1846 when he living in paris so about 1843 he comes across the writings of richard cobden this may have unsettled him thinking maybe i have something more to contribute maybe i can lead or create and then lead a french free trade movement like cobden has done in england another possibility is that he at this time becomes aware that he has a serious throat condition and i think it is he described about having a pollop in his throat a lump which i suspect was was cancer and they didn't know much about cancer in the 1840s but i think he had a sense that he didn't have a great deal of time left to live and anyway the average lifespan of a working class person male in france at this time was about 46 or 47 and then for someone rich richer like him who was comfortable it might have been 50 so if he's sort of in his 43 44 he may have realized that he didn't have long to live anyway and that with his throat condition he may not have may only have a few years left so he may have decided that i need to do something i need to move out of this the quietness and security of mughran and go to babelon that's the name he he gave paris babelon which if you've been to paris is not far from the truth another possibility is that he with all his reading of economics sort of private reading he might have had thoughts original thoughts in his mind that suggested to him that he had something to say and and that mughran was too much of a confining space and that he had to put it would have taken considerable courage to break from his roots in mughran and move to a foreign city a big city and to make a new life for himself so it's possibly his interest in richard cobson's anti-corneral league perhaps um this fear that he doesn't have much time to live and then a third option is that maybe he thinks he does have some theory in his head that needs to be written down um we don't know of course but that's that's my speculation so he goes to babelon what does babelon look like well this this is an interesting map from 1841 and this is what um busier would have seen he would have perhaps they were just starting to build trains railways um he would have come up from the southwest and you'll notice that there are three rings that surround paris between 1841 and 44 this outer ring of forts was built and this outer ring of a military wall was built because um the prime minister adolf tiere was convinced that the english were going to invade again and that something had to be done for the defences of paris the inner wall is a wall that was built in the 1780s um to help with tax collection this was the octwa wall it was octwa was a city tax anyone entering the city had to go through a barrier or a gate to be inspected and then have to pay taxes on whatever they were bringing into the city there are all sorts of consumer items they had to pay taxes on that wasn't torn down until much later 1859 but these are other forts this was a huge public works construction um they had to reclaim from private owners huge amount of land to build um not just the wall but a road that went inside the wall and then um a couple of hundred yards of clear space so they could have a clear line of fire to shoot the english as they approached on paris and then they built this ring of forts and each of these forts had a certain range for artillery so they could cover the entire area so um this was uh what paris looked like when bastia came there and of course what it is is a wonderful symbol of how the state surrounds us with barriers and walls tax walls military walls and these were the things that really irritated and upset bastia and he wanted to smash all those walls and barricades by having free trade and by cutting military expenditure to the bone um freddy and the free traders this i'll i'll end on this because i'm running out of time and uh but um if i if bastia were to um start a band uh today um i immediately thought of freddy mercury right and then i thought freddy freddy and the free traders what what a great name for a rock band um if he made his name um with the french free trade association which um he was able to set up and work full time for um in 1846 he became the editor and main writer of their magazine uh le livre échange or free trade and it's in the that magazine um that he wrote a lot of the economic sophisms and they were republished in in collected form as the economic sophisms but what he did as a um a journalist and activist for free trade was to invent a whole new what i call a rhetoric of liberty how he wanted to phrase language that would be persuasive to ordinary people who didn't know much about economics why they should support free trade and be opposed to government subsidies and he did this in a very original way which makes him such a great economic journalist um one of the main weapons that he used um was the sting of ridicule that's his expression i want to make fun i want to mock everything the government does in order to show it up for what it really is i want to end all this use of euphemisms to describe what governments do he said we have to call a spade a spade or call a cat a cat and he developed a whole vocabulary which is brilliantly illustrated in the economic sophisms um where he would call the things that the government did um in this harsh very critical way so he he wanted to call every what the government did theft or plunder and he came up with a vocabulary to describe this and so some of the key words that he used over and over again in his writings were words like de puie to dispossess spolier to plunder vole to steal pie to loot or pillage filute to filch and so he had all these um abusive words that he was not afraid to use in order to describe what governments did and in addition to having these words he also invented a whole new way of formulating or presenting his ideas in the form of little plays and dialogues he became an expert at doing this in the economic sophisms he'd have a a stock representative of a free trade position and a stock representative of a protectionist then you have them engage in this um conversation and uh bastia would lead the advocate of protectionism to a reductio absurdum position and then make fun of them and he did this over and over again and that's what makes some of his sophisms so brilliant he would write fake petitions to the government and that's exactly what the petition of the candle makers is but he did several of those um he would do parodies of things like mollier and i wanted to give you an example of this um now just bear with me for a moment because he's doing a parody of a parody and again you have to explain this in multiple footnotes in the book mollier hated doctors right he was suffering from a very bad disease that would eventually kill him he actually died on stage which is always an embarrassment for an actor um anyway so in in the play the hypochondriacs he writes mollier writes an appendix in latin um and then as part of that appendix he has this satirical oath of induction for people who want to become doctors and so these and it this is all in latin and so the latin so this doc would be doctor who wants to be sworn into the fraternities of the medical profession has to swear in public um um um what that means in in english um is i give and grant to you the power and authority to practice medicine to purge to bleed to stab to hack to slash and kill with impunity throughout the whole world so what does bastia do in one of this one of his great he does his own version of this this is a etching um a drawing by dormier showing um louis philippe um as a plunderer gargantua now louis philippe was the king and he had this unfortunate physical shape that he looked like a pair and so all the cartoonists drew him as a pair and so he he would put them in prison and their cartoons would sell more and more cartoonists would draw him as a pair so it was anyway so this is um bastia's parody of molia molia's parody where he says this is the oath of induction for a would-be customs inspector right i'll skip some of the introduction introductory stuff he says volandi piandi derobandi feltandi and escroquandi in punay petotam istam via which in english is i give to you and grant virtue and power to steal to plunder to filch to swindle to defraud at will along this whole road this is very funny but um and that is that is a bastia's style and that is what makes him so endearing i think um to to to readers um so i've just i'll close now and open up for questions but what i wanted to show you was that behind the economic journalist there is another bastia or several bastia's he is a radical um in his style of writing and doing things like these satires and plays on words he's also personally radical and he's different with his clothing and his behavior bursting into song he's constantly quoting molia he was notorious for not just singing political songs but bawdy songs which he would have sung in the bars of bayon um molinari described him as having a rabbalasian wit uh which is a euphemism for saying that he made sexual references constantly in his singing but he's also i think and i haven't gone into this in any detail because i don't have time but i think we can there is a strong case to be made that he was um i call him a proto austrian i don't think he was fully there but he was very very close um and that he has he had in it to in himself he had the the knowledge and the ideas to write a really great book of economic theory but uh his throat cancer killed him before it just finished


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Well, thank you everybody. Appreciate you again joining here this evening We have a quorum so motion to move our meeting all right, we can We can move into Approval of the agenda. Hope you all had a chance to take a look at that. I Don't have anything to add there. So motion to approve the agenda No, sorry Second very good Approval of the previous month's minutes. I Didn't see any changes or additions there that were required. Do we have a motion to approve? I'm gonna be approved Second all in favor Okay, and to communications from our pros Brian, how about you up first? Put you on the spot. All right Sounds good. All right sunset for March Revenue-wise we were projected around 32,000 788 Actual came in about 18,430 $23 excuse me rounds actual or excuse me projected rounds for March were about 1493 came in actuals around 1072 and I think one of the one of the real considerations to why it was down that was that You know that little blitz Kind of pummeled all of us for a while there. We were we were starting off really good for the year and I mean even when we were when we're open like yesterday today Saturday Super busy So I have I'm really excited for April for March or excuse me May June July these summer months to Really kick it into high gear But yeah, March was a little was a little tough for us. It looks like Yep understood Any questions for right Sam? I'll go ahead. That's okay. Sam you go that yeah, go right ahead. Yeah, I would echo Ryan I think we were only open 11 days. We had actual 11 days open in March So I mean it wasn't the best one the best month And I think Ryan may even have less than that because sunset had a hard time uncovering Because of number two and number one and those north-facing slopes. So at Twin Peaks, we were 71,000 for March and probably that's a little bit inflated since Ryan wasn't open We probably sold a few more season passes and we would have because people go to one course to buy them and they go to the course It's open. So We were projected to 37 made 71 88 it's good month. This has been a good month, but again, we've only been open I Counted today 14 days something like that So it's really The weather has been tough. It's certainly been a challenge But we certainly needed the moisture and that hopefully gets us in a good spot as far as having enough water to get through this summer We played 1600 rounds for the month Which was you know pretty good But not great but for 11 days, that's pretty good So, I mean, we've been trying my man Ryan there the other Ryan that is Ryan Hennig He'll tell you we've been trying to get the greens airfied now for about three weeks in a row We still haven't got it done. So And and to him to him and his team they're doing such a good job Just trying to reschedule and he's communicated with me and we try to get communications out to everybody and It's been tough because we're trying to fill the golf course But yet we're trying to get it airfied and we don't want to upset customers So it's it's a balancing act course, but we're getting through it and he's doing a great job Good Any questions for Twin Peaks? No, all right, thank you Keith Okay. Yeah, just to kind of echo with with Keith and Ryan You know, we're only opened up open 10 days, but when we're when the weather's good, we're busy This past weekend We were cranking at 229 rounds on Saturday and 268 on Sunday, which is Which is amazing for this time of year. We're starting at starting our t-times at 730 or a kind of depending on frost But we were booked each day till about five o'clock. So we we had two great days For the month it actually looks good compared to prior year because prior year we closed March 16th due to COVID So comparing from last year, you know, we're 102% in revenues And April so far I mean and then you look back in when we got reopened We didn't reopen until 20 the 23rd of April last year. So we are actually About a hundred thousand dollars ahead so far in April So things are good golf is I think golf, you know, it's really strong right now Any questions? I Just have a question. Do you think that this is for all you guys? Has extending the passes the extra what 35 days? I think it was gonna be had you feel like that's impacted your revenue at all or not Yeah Not for you Greek. I don't think so. I think that I Mean majority of people are buying them anyway, and so they just buy them a little bit later Yeah, and I think that the good will that that that it raised I think really made people really happy and thankful and and some didn't even find out until they were ready to purchase And I said, well, you got another 30 days and they couldn't believe it and that really made them feel good. Oh good. Okay And here are the questions By the way Keith I did a like a cost analysis for my group Because some of them are playing you Creek on the Tuesdays too So I did a cost analysis for them on the break even and stuff for the different age groups And they appreciate it. So hopefully I even promoted a few more passes. Oh good Thank you appreciate that When it when you really sit down and look at the numbers it really is a great value. It is a great value Unless you're having to rent a car and you got to pay the extra penny then it gets a little frustrating Well, they're gonna do that Great, well, thank you Sam appreciate it. Yep Any public I didn't I didn't see that we hadn't any public Jeff. I Don't think so Danny. Have you heard from anyone? No, we don't have any public. Okay. All right. Very good Six old business don't have any old business to attend to seven new business youth instructional golf programs Yeah, one of the one of the things Justin Greg who was on our board for one meeting and he had to resign because he was His business was relocating him had asked to talk about our Instruction programs for youth So Keith and Sam are ready to share what they have planned for this summer I'll start unless Sam Yeah, I'll go ahead At Twin Peaks as far as youth instructional stuff. We do you know number one. I would say we do a Lot of individual private lessons from the junior golfers. I give I'd say Probably over half the lessons that I give are given to junior golfers So and and I give a fair amount of lessons So that's a lot of kids that are getting impacted and that's in my mind the best way to impact them because you can really Make a difference in a half hour hour and they get them going in a series of lessons and some kids just take them year around and That's how they really become really good skilled players To get them to that place. We have two programs on mondays. We have Be getting june 7th for ages five to nine. We have a program called first step And they show up at 10 o'clock. It's a drop-in program. We've made a drop in for the Mostly for the parents because it's if you don't have to sign up It makes it a lot easier to be organized and if you're away on vacation You don't got a call and and follow up with us You just show up when you're in town and we work with you when you get there So they show up at 10 o'clock. We do Uh about 45 minutes of hitting balls and when we're out there hitting balls in the range we put all sorts of targets out there and uh Trash cans and swimming pools and and if they knock over baskets we And uh, and you know, we we give them money when they do these things We don't give them candy or gifts and stuff We walk around with rolls of quarters and dollar bills and And uh if they do and it's pretty neat and they and the kids get really excited I will say every once in a while the the individual who Really really wants to get something and doesn't sometimes leaves a little disappointed, but for the most part They they really enjoy it. They get really excited Uh and then for 45 minutes we do a similar similar thing with putting We'll set up stations and and we're teaching them how to put And we'll uh, you know, if they get it inside a You know a circle of quarters and they get they get a quarter and if they make it they get a dollar Wow It works out well for my business because when they all get done they come in and they raid the snack bar which is The number one thing that all children remember about junior golf is the hot dogs and the candy in the restaurant and That that has drawn so many children to golf. I can't even tell you If you tell your children they want to want to go up to the range and hit balls They're going to ask you can we get some candy? So it works out pretty good. Um, and then at the end of it we offer a A hot dog chips and a drink for three dollars for the parents to uh that way the kids can all sit down and eat afterwards and uh It's really gone. Well, we've done it for a long time. So that's on mondays for the five to nine year old Then on tuesdays we do the same thing with the starting at 10 o'clock and then But we the tuesday group can get so big You know, we've had as many as 50 to 60 kids show up And um, and it's me and my my you know assistant steve and We get several volunteers that help us keep the ratios in a good in a good place, but uh We'll get and that isn't always how it is, you know, but you never know because it's drop in But we break them into two groups and we line them up on the range and then the other group goes on the putting green And then we'll we switch after 45 minutes So we don't try to put it we we teach the little kids together But we teach the bigger the bigger kids into two separate groups And then we you know, we halfway through we take a little water break and then we switch sides and And they go to the range and the kids on the range go to the putting green And then when that finishes up we offer that same hot dog chips and a drink lunch And the difference between the first and the next step the next step on tuesday is we give them a playing option So they get the opportunity to go out in the golf course and So, you know, this year they'll they'll finish the lesson 11 30 We're going to give them a half an hour to kind of relax and eat with in the past We honestly would finish at 12 and rush them through and they're on the t by 12 15 So this way they get a half an hour And take their time eat their lunch and now we teach them how to go to the counter and pay So this is in in in both programs we make the children pay We don't want the parents to pay us. We want the children to handle the money We want the children to go to the counter after the lesson is over and pay the money for their green fees at the counter We wanted to go to the snack bar counter and pay their money for their food just to teach them some responsibility And to help them grow a comfort level at the golf course And so then we pair them up and you know even before they go in they're already paired up into groups So when they go upstairs they report to the guy that's checking them in We're in group one group two group three or so on He puts them in four sims and then we call them out as groups They all pay their money. They have their lunch and then they head out and they play nine holes and and our and our deal on the nine holes is uh They get six shots. They get four putts on every hole And so I basically as they're going out I I holler at all of them six shots four putts do not get in front of each other Yeah Because safety is a big thing which we obviously stress when we're around the range with them too but uh, I think in the last 10 years, we've only had one incident And uh, and one, you know two brothers were playing together and one got out in front of the other one And and the kid of course hit the ball while his brother was in front of him. He hit his brother But It didn't hit him in a bad place and it worked out. Okay And I think In my entire career This just goes all the way back to my days at sunset when I took over In 97 there We've only had one serious injury That that has ever got hurt At junior golf and that and that individual you'll see him on fox 31 news. His name is ebb and krugel Oh He turned out okay. Yeah, but he got hit in the eye way back So um, but again, he got out in front of his friends and a friend hit the ball and it got old evan and So anyway, he's uh, he's doing okay He's had a really good career for himself.  We are going to be good to go. So we are planning on doing it Monday program will start the 7th. The Tuesday program will start the 8th That's great. Keith Uh june 8th Yeah, june 7th and june 8th Okay Fantastic And that's all we got for twin peaks. So that sounds great. Sounds great. Thank you, Keith. Yep. Thank you Sam, do you have anything you want to add to that? How does anybody follow that? I mean Keith is probably one of the best salesmen I ever met but I do have to say he is also Without a doubt one of the best instructors in this state And that and that is a fact and he is without a doubt the junior golf leader in color and in long months. Um But he does he does the great job We we do golf. We do junior golf Is here as well. Um I've done some of the clinics myself over the years. I really don't Do that much anymore. I help out what I need to But trey shee is our he's a pj professional He's been at ukeek since the course opened in 1997 He was actually at one time voted the junior golf leader for the pj section in colorado So he's great as well very very good instructor But he does our junior camps they they pale in comparison to twin peaks But for this year they're on hold we're not doing anything at this time for for 2021 until Mike keeps mentioning the um covid restrictions and Hope i'm not speaking out of turn here for trey, but he's he's um He's one of those guys that's um very paranoid with the covid stuff and So he's very he does classes and stuff, but he's kind of nervous about being around a bunch of kids So so anyway, they're on hold at this point, but um, hopefully that changes That's it. Thank you Thank you sam. Yeah, appreciate that Alrighty There's no other questions there. We'll move into the new business Ukeek Course presentation I'm interested to hear about this Sam Sam are you starting?  Who's running the the power point? Is that nicky? Nicky is I am um Who is starting whose presentation do I need first? We'll go with the maintenance one Dan's Okay, they're labeled Dan Dan Sam. So Dan's is going first Dan is going first. All right. Yes one second I'll bring that up for you Thank you for that Well, she gets that pulled up. I'll just give a a quick overview I'm just going to talk about the the projects we've been kind of doing the last um a couple years out at Ukeek we started them Most of them back in the the fall late fall We uh, we got going with these first ones. I'll show but so yeah, we'll do Ukeek projects and um, they'll be four of them So next slide please So that okay, so we're gonna start with the car path This is the most recent one that we just finished up Actually probably a couple weeks ago. We just opened up the path today because the sod is pretty well established now We're still not going to have any carts drive on it because it's still soft and We're going to keep that uh as nice as we can right now because that was a A lot of square footage just sawed as you can see we laid or the company laid over 5 000 square feet of sod On the 10 side and the 11 side. So we were able to fix up a lot of those wear areas out there And then when you see the path, you'll see they laid 95 tons of Path mix, which is at $49 a ton. So this project All said and done cost us about 16600 dollars and once we start you can go the next slide please Once we started doing the project. We realized that the 11 side Had gotten really wore out last year with all the golf that we had and all the single rider carts Really wore out the the other side. We'd only really plan to do the 10 side But when we got into it, it just made sense to to do the other side also so so these are the before pictures you can see how rough that path was And uh all that so then this is when they started prepping it So they actually took the sod cutter and cut all this out individually And uh tilled it up used the the skid steer to remove some dirt. Um And they did an awesome job of prepping it You'll see if you're if you make it out there how smooth and how perfect they laid it. So Next slide, please This is just more this is their their finished project these ones here on the left You'll just you can just tell how how awesome that it just that gets my blood boiling that and seeing that stuff like that But uh, but and then on the ends there you can see they dug down about Um three four inches to so there's a nice base where the path meets the concrete And so next side, please And then there's the finished product You know, this is this is the beginning of tan over here on the left and then down the middle and then Up there you can see where it kind of turns and goes to 11 to but but like I said, it looks great So that was that was job well done by by l&m Or actually that one was done by gms solutions. So all right next, please Yep, Dan. I was out there this past weekend. It looks great. Yeah, they did they did a good job Um, so this is the next one eight and 18 lake banks these ones Um over the past 20 years the waves have just started to wash out Underneath the banks and had made the banks very unstable and pretty unsafe for mowers carts people basically just walking on theirs You know, they could have collapsed at any time. So this is a project We've been trying to do for a while and we had it scheduled for the beginning Kind of of 20, but when all everything hit it just got pushed back So so we started out with number eight first. So next slide Oh, yeah, so eight eight lake bank was um Was about 500 linear feet Of shoreline that we fixed up there and that took 254 tons of riprap And you'll see once they did the whole process they did but and then we also added a little extension We did it for our mowers were when they turn around when they're mowing greens but the golfers are going to be really happy with it too with the little uh extra extra laying here Yep, so you got about an extra 30 feet, you know, it's about 3000 square feet Total, you know that we laid there of sod.  We're we're ready to let people hit out of there. It's pretty solid right now So and that project came to about 40 000. So so i'll show you some pictures here of all the work they did So next slide, please Yeah, you can see before and most of you have been out there You know how how just unfinished it looked, you know, so once we uh got going it just really made it worth it so next slide Yeah, they came in with all this road base and fill material and just they were actually able to We were able to lower the lake form So they were actually able to get inside the lake the next one You'll see they had to do it all from the top But but they filled that all the way across and then they laid the rock on top of the road base So so next slide And then this is the extension you'll see it Wow Yeah, it it added a lot of area and it finished it, you know, where the lake's kind of circular now instead of Cut out in there. I mean that was a good look like that, but but it was a safety issue and Probably I don't know 10 15 years ago We didn't have one guy slide in off that bank when it was frosty and kind of dewy out there So so it was uh, it was well worth it. So next slide, please Yeah, and then you'll see this is where they they laid the rock Um, they kind of would just come in with a skid steer and dump And then the the track hoe would kind of level it out and uh, yeah, they made their way around so next slide and then oops And then we you creek staff came in and added an irrigation to that whole lake bank because it would In the summer months, you know, that's a that's a south facing slope So it would get really hot and um, we wanted to add irrigation to that new area You know, we we spent the money to build it up. So we wanted to irrigate it and keep it looking nice We did the whole lake bank. So that'll all be irrigated now And it should have a lot more dense turf on there in the summertime. So next slide, please Yeah, and there we are laying the sod so They they delivered the sod up on the road and then we took our tractor and and brought it down there was probably Six of us or something laying it two guys would would lay it out and the other four guys or so would come and drop it And uh, then there on the end, you just want to really soak it down When you uh, when you get sod down there to get it to establish next slide And then this next one is uh, 18 lake bank. This one was 600 Linear feet and 304 tons and this one came came to 34 000 The reason this one was less is so we didn't add that bank and add the sod and add the irrigation So this one this one looks really good too They helps finish the whole and and this one was the one that was really getting undercut the worst that we're Most worried about our big rough moor and parts and all that so So next slide, please So this one you can see how all that stuff was already falling off In the next pictures, they'll show out how uh, the company Actually just pushed it in the ground into the lake and use that as some of their material to lay the rocks on These guys actually they did most of the work by hand with shovels and stuff So they used the excavator a little bit But but they had a they had a little different approach and and it turned out good, you know So this is them laying the rock here with the excavator. So next slide And uh, yep, they just kept going you can see in the middle You can see the the one on the left too how their banks They use they use dirt and stuff too, but they didn't use quite as much road base But and then when you do projects like this in in late december you end up with um frozen lakes So so therefore the excavator comes in good to break that up And they can get their rocks down in there further So next slide Yeah, I mean there it is the the finished product. So so it it looks good both both projects looks really good It looks great from the clubhouse. It looks great from pace our 17th avenue. Sorry when you're driving, you know It makes it stand out. So so it was job well done Next project, please And this one was just uh, this is for us maintenance guys here our uh our old shop here We had done this project probably 10 years ago and it has just been wore out and It was so dusty, you know in our dry summers Anytime a card or or any type of equipment would drive through there would just be a dust cloud and An arm mechanic works just over here to the left in this left right picture This shop's right over there to the left and he's like the main road right through there So he would just get bombarded with dust all day So so we got a hold of um, well our safety officer got a hold of our operations team And they came in and and did this project for so it's very well appreciated. So next slide, please You can see this is them prepping it They kind of went through and leveled it out because it had humps and bumps and all sorts of stuff So they went through and then the middle ones the big trucks that brought it in and then they would just dump piles there and and the uh Big big greater would come through and level it out and and they did a great job. So next slide This is the big machine. They didn't Skimp on size of the equipment they brought in to help us out. So so that was nice this thing's got a What they call laser levels on there so he can go along and I'm not a positive how it works, but it kind of Goes on its own and just makes everything perfectly flat You know and then they the other guys here on the picture on the right would do a little handwork You got to touch up all the edges and this guy in the skid steer would come and do all the small areas That the big guys couldn't get into so Next slide Yeah, and then they came through and they rolled it all they rolled everything The whole place back and forth. They're really compacted down So so it should should be good for quite a while. Hopefully by the time that that new facility comes Um, but and then they sprayed it with magnesium chloride and and that should really keep the dust down and And luckily it rained which really helps too So it started to rain a little bit and then all the snow and other rain we've had Is really compacted it down. So like I said here, we appreciate all the help from other city organizations And it's going to be great this summer not having that that dust blowing everywhere. So So that's uh, that's you creek in the last few months with our major projects A lot of work well done Thank you any other questions. Well Well done Dan Appreciate it So that's not um, Sam Okay Well while we're waiting for the slide Um, I just want to mention about dan and his crew They do a great job on this golf course. I think you all you saw this course this last weekend, Earl Marsha, I know you've been coming out and playing as well And it's so nice seeing that we're actually putting money back into the golf course This is kind of a new thing for us since Jeff Reesner came on it.  So you got a great first impression Then you also got a great last impression when you leave the golf course coming down 18 you see the same thing so it's It's really made some great improvements. So it's it's really nice to see Yeah, agreed. It looks great. Okay, so Dude Creek operations. Um Well, we were lucky enough to um be voted golfers choice award in 2021. Um What they do um every year is they rate the top 25 courses in each state And um, we were lucky enough to get on to be a part of that This is all review based so Because I was kind of curious when this first turn I'm like, how did we get this award? How does this work, you know, so I contacted the company and I'm and um asking question and they said It's all based on reviews and um, they they sometimes will send reviews out Like you like if you go if you go somewhere and you book it online You'll get prompted to do review. It's kind of works that way And the next page will show you a little more about that. So next page, please That's the wrong one Oh, sorry Okay, so so a summary of the of the reviews you can see that Of the people that did the reviews there was 365 And our overall rating was a 4.4, which is very good About 96 of people that play you Creek would recommend it to other folks and um And the reviews were based on six different areas. One is conditions. Obviously the maintenance guys Um are nailing it on the conditions then The value of the golf course Course layout Robert Trin Jones the second design no surprise there that that's a high rating friendliness of staff Probably days that I wasn't working no just but um No, we do we got a great staff here. I think from uh from our pro shop or stack bar staff our Volunteer and Marshall program. I think the folks do a great job. But our two weakest areas is the pace of play and amenities You know the you the uh Robert Trin Jones the second design is a is a tough course and it presents a challenge and Pace of play has been an issue for us Amenities as well. And so I'm going to touch on those two areas on the next few slides here So the next one, please okay, so To give some background on our clubhouse amenities um And how our current setup came to be This is the original plan um For the u Creek pro shop and restaurant So if you look at the slide here on the on the far left um, it says north elevation phase two That's our current current pro shop and that's looking at it from like the first team Then if you go to the right hand side, you'll see Phase two and phase one That's a west facing view. It's like from the 18th green us looking back at our clubhouse and what was supposed to be our restaurant the um The restaurant and the original plan was going to be a full-service restaurant could seat 144 player tournament um afterwards to my own understanding so There's a great place um In the plans to um, you know promote tournaments and and um and just for our day-to-day use having A facility for our golfers, but The funds ran low So the decision was to made to uh do the building in phases. So we did phase one start with that's our current building And so everything inside of our building now is temporary um, the snack bar area is a temporary setup the dining room is temporary So everything is crammed into one small area. That's why we have such a small dining room and why our Our snack bar is so limited because it's supposed to be a temporary situation, but We're still waiting for the funds to get this done however We have made a lot of um We've done a lot of improvements over the years and it's been kind of a challenge for us And I think we've done some really fun things. So on the next next slide. We'll start. We'll get into that a little bit more So improvements to the amenities, um, we addition to new patio furniture addition of the lower pavilion and picnic tables And improved uh food selection Next slide please okay, so this This is a picture from our um Our phase two area, which is now a patio and it's not a bad thing. It's a great patio The view's overlooking the 18th hole in the northern front range It's awesome and jeff. Um, again, I mentioned jeff puts money in the golf course He purchased these tables and chairs for us and they're high quality and they have really dressed it up. So, um It's nice. It's not it's not a full-service restaurant, but it's it's really a nice place. I mean when I came in this afternoon um there was about I don't know 10 tables were filled out there Uh spread apart of course, you know with the cove and stuff, but um, it was it was busy Uh next slide please so To really like I mentioned earlier with the with the restaurant trying to um sell turning tournaments this huge business for us And you have to have an area That a terminal can come in afterwards to do their awards and their dinner um Course was built in 1997. I don't know what they did before 2003 But the quantus club donated this pavilion for us And then in 2008 we went ahead and added picnic tables. I got here in 2006 and for the first couple years I was really pushing hard to get golf tournaments And every time I'd fill it up. I had to rent tables and chairs to make it happen So we finally got these picnic tables put in and now it's um It's a really nice place for uh folks to do their work or turn us through their awards Next slide please Um Oh there it is. I'm sorry No, I'm sorry go back Oh, sorry That's all right my fault I got a little ahead of myself there What went right there Another thing that we'd like to see happen here, um And we were actually kind of working on it for the last couple years this in 2020 We're really going to start trying to push for To get more weddings and stuff out here It'd be a great wedding venue With the with the setting that we have overlooking the golf course Um, it would be perfect And the pavilion is a great place for it But it just needs to be dressed up a little more. I don't know what that would really entail, you know, I kind of I kind of picture like some wood beams and stuff I don't know just to just to pretty it up some But the other big issue we're doing weddings for us is it's not enclosed um So when the weather comes in it could be a disaster and I've seen it happen. I remember one time It might even be this one here the picture here, but one time we had it all set up We had all the wine glasses everything set up on the tables and a custom wind came through and we lost every glass um So if some that would be my wish list if somewhere down the road that we can get this thing enclosed I kind of picture Like a garage door type of uh like a fold down door something that we can open air Then if it starts to get bad we can bring it down but um One of the improvements so um Yeah much better anyways next slide So the Greek snack bar was intended to be a temporary setup. I thought I had a picture on this one. Um Until the phase two could be completed. Um Um So right now we have no fire suppression system and no hood So we're very limited on our uh kitchen equipment We had we we were set up with a hot dog roller um the hot dog roller a microwave oven and um And that was about it next slide, please I forgot there was one more I can't think um There it is we had an extra slide in there for some reason. Um So without the hood and fire suppression system Our meals were limited to basically cold sandwiches actually this on the next slide go back up One of the slides got we got an extra slider. It's confusing me which is not hard to do Um So basically okay, so we have a sandwich table we got a sandwich table and a hot dog roller So basically all we've been able to really do is cold sandwiches sandwiches wraps hot dogs and brats. Um We've tried a bunch of different things over the years to try to ampump our food service for just the day to day um customers and um One of the things we did is we we tried a gas grill we put that out in the back of the snack bar So that we can cook hot food um, and that was really It was difficult kind of difficult because there was no flow to it. Um So we still use that for tournaments. It works great, you know, we have tournament outings We that's what we use to prepare food and use the the gas grill Um, let me go the next slide now So we came across this back in 2013. This is called an auto fry And what this is it's a fryer that has a self-contained fire suppression system And that that has really helped us a lot. I mean, we're nowhere close to where we need to be yet But it is it's been a huge help. We've got a lot of fun food items down um Go the next slide please Yeah, this is basically we're able to do prior to the auto fry cold sandwiches dogs brought I gotta say though our brats are delicious They're um All beef quarter pound our brats we do we put a lot of work and effort into finding the best brat But that was all we had you get a sandwich dog or a brought in chips And that was pretty much our only selection Next slide Now that we got the auto fry, um You can come in and have an ice cold beer and a cheeseburger after you're around And with fries it's a potato chips chicken sandwiches Next slide wings our wings are amazing as well I got the waistline to prove it chicken tenders And that's just a common example of what we can do now. So it There has been some improvement made with our food selection Again, it's not it's not anywhere where it needs to be But um, it is definitely better than what it was Which is that one piece of equipment Okay, um before I go into a pace of plays or any other questions any questions at all Okay, um So about you creak again, I've kind of mentioned already, um, Robert trend jones the second design Ruled class golf course. We're very lucky to have this course here in in our long one community Tough course, so it's definitely has been our challenge for pace of play And the next slide please So here's some of our challenges for the pace. Um We got five lakes that now have riprap on them. We got five lakes that come into play on six of our halls um the two creeks that That reander through the golf course Um that comes into play on seven of our holes We got native grass on on every hole which And you'd creep being a link style golf course is really important to have the native grass We we got to be careful about how we maintain it. But um Because the native grass really defines our course because we don't have all the trees. So that's really our Is a really nice feature. However, the native grasses um You know, you hit a ball you hit an air and shot into the native grass it takes forever to find the wall and then it's out of Out of balance on almost every hole 55, uh sand bunkers. We got multi-level fairways for difficult approaches to the greens Um undulating greens for difficult fighting conditions. Our greens can be tough if we want to make them tough And force carries on several holes. There's many holes out here that you have to either carry a green side bunker a fairway bunker Cree the lake on a couple of halls some native area Um, yeah, it's tough course Next slide please So we we we come up with like five different um five different steps To to improve our pace of playing Some of these are ongoing and some are kind of new but we've increased our course marshal and first-tea greeter staff Um trying to educate our players a little more We've added white tees Um, and we try to do an easy course setup during peak times And again to maintain the native areas in some strategic areas Next slide please okay, this is a This is a sample of our um where this is our schedule during our peak season And the biggest change that we made going into this season is we amped up our Our greeter our first-tea greeter From six o'clock in the morning until two o'clock. So we have somebody out there Standing on the first tee for the first eight hours a day seven days a week. We used to only have that on the weekends But we I think that's probably the most important position out here because Those guys can can meet the players when they come to the tee They can talk about any conditions on the course that are relevant They can suggest the correct tees to play from um And also talk about our pace of play our pace of play our recommend is should play in four and a half hours That doesn't always happen I don't know what your pace of play was like this past weekend noro, but we started off great Started off at four and a half. But by the end of the day, we were we're close to five hours We were four and a we were right at four and a half. Yay. Glad to hear that. What was your it was great Uh, we teed off at tennis It was after the men's club. So yeah, it was great Once the tee time start getting to about the one or two o'clock time those folks start finishing in about five hours because it's You know pace of play is like a one lane road. You can only go as fast as the as a group in front of you and um That's why we have amped up our marshaling so that we have marshals on the course From the first tee time of the day to the last tee time of the day Just to help with uh and assist players How how many minutes are between groups tee and off? and that's a good question actually because That varies from golf course to golf course. Um Our standard in long run has always been eight minutes. Yeah But we changed that Last year because of covet. Yeah, I thought we did We're now at 10 minutes and that's helped a lot as well because it just It just takes some of the pressure off and obviously just makes for a more enjoyable experience um The only concern with that is you know, you're losing almost two tee times per hour So you start doing the math on that that's a lot of revenue Yeah, but our demand is so high right now That we're filling the golf courses up more days of the week Like for instance, we used to really rely on our friday saturday and sunday times To generate our revenues. We're filling up almost every day. So 10 Yeah 10 minutes works great As a recently retired person out during the weekday One can ask yourself if anybody works anymore I ask that all the time. I These 30 something are out here all the time. I think they're working from home, but um It's unbelievable how many How many young guys play Every day of the week throughout your play. That's amazing Which is great for us right You know, like we mentioned earlier in the in the conversation We talked, you know golf is strong And that's been one of the one of the great things from covet. I just hope that That continues For us now when things start getting back to normal, but right now it's great. So 10 minute intervals You know, I think we all agree. We're going to try to stay with that for now okay Next slide, please So player education, you know, we Speaking of all these new guys coming to the game a lot of folks just don't Know how to play fast golf. So we have these cards. It's like, um Like three like three inch by maybe eight inch And it's two-sided the pace of play policy is on one side the ready golf rules are on the other side and This is one. It's a good tool for our for our marshaling staff like for instance the first t greeter You can go to that first bullet point And say usga recommends four and a half hours for you creek Then you go down to the bottom of that card and say Here are the suggested t's based on your handicap or your ability, you know, make it fun for yourself Don't go all the way back go up. Make, you know So it's just a matter of getting the guys to play from the right t's helps a lot with the pace of play and Ready golf rules a lot of folks just don't really understand How to keep it moving and these are just some very helpful attempts to help people with that We've got these available in the pro shop and our our marshals have them available to hand out as well Next slide, please. Yeah, I love the white t's. Thank you, Sam You you bet man, and you know, it's you I think that we all have been around golf long enough that We grew up whenever it was three sets of t's red white and blue and then the red was for women White was for men and blue was championship So you would never catch a guy on the red t's those were ladies piece But that stigma is really starting to go away. It's amazing how many guys you see playing the red t's now There's quite a few more that should be There there should be a player for like the 150 markers, but Um But having the suggested t's by course handicap um I think really helps because the guy can just think of hey, yeah They're telling me to play from these t's because of my handicaps this we not we have it on the pace of play card Then we have it on this scorecard as well That's good Okay, next slide please and then easy court set up during peak times. Well peak times was every day now, but um Friday, saturday and sundays or and really except for ladies days We try to keep the course easy on ladies day. We make it really as difficult as we possibly can I've noticed that I think you even move in more sand traps We have 55 um But on the scorecard you see the uh, you see the pinch sheet or the or the whole location chart We got one through six This serves two purposes one It um It helps with the wear and tear on the greens. So the maintenance guys just kind of follow that program And then two it helps the golfers to know um We're approximately where the where the pin is at on the greens I mentioned earlier that the greens are very undulating. So as they're doing the course setup, they try to um Try to find the flattest areas on the greens. So just to make the fighting as easy as possible And then also we try to move the teases up as well every chance we get Next slide, please To me, I think this has been made the biggest improvement on pace of play because I can't tell you how many times I just seen guys out there looking for that five dollar golf ball And just spinning Forever looking for it. So the native area we identified a couple years ago the areas marked in blue um And we started to maintain them, but we just got aggressive with it. Um, the proposed areas were marked in yellow And um, we are now cutting all of those areas down And um, I think that's helped tremendously with our pace of life Can I ask a question? Um, yeah, have you noticed anything Has result most of people are leaving the pins in is that made any difference at all? It's on pace of play. I I don't really that's a good question, but I don't know. I don't think so, but okay, I mean it's possible I'm just curious. Yeah, because it's that one last step of putting the flag back in so And the rules of golf now you can leave it in as well. So that's kind of changed just prior to covid as well Um, that's it for you creek any other questions? That's good Thank you very good. Thank you sam. Appreciate that. Yeah, thanks, role Uh, any items from the staff at all? Or members staff No Can I ask a question? Um, two things First of all, just so you know, I I my wife right here moved here about 12 years ago And I live about seven minutes from Twin Peaks and seven minutes from sunset. So I go back and forth Uh, it have been for you know, 1112 years last week I was at you creek and with a couple and we teed off on four And the man hit a you know, he hit his t-ball and about 200 yards in the air Hit the tree on the right side And bounded out in the air in the street, which you believe hit a car coming by broke the windshield Oh So that means I mean I've been playing there for 12 years the first time it's ever happened But what came up? Was everybody's wondering what you do they ever thought about putting, you know, some kind of fence along that the was a third third street And just have perhaps pervading that from happening. I'm just curious if what's the background on that You're referring to hole number four at sunset, correct? Right, right. Okay Um, jeff, I don't know if you want to answer that but I've I've had this come up But I think we went against that at one point because it's going to cost it would cost outrageous amount of money Well, and I I think it also has a impact to the neighbors we if we were going to consider that we'd need to do some real public Meetings to get their input because Looking out that all the time at at that big tall fence. I think is gonna Give them an opinion that it's uh It may save cars and windows, but it it's could be pretty ugly looking I would agree with that jeff. I would think the neighbors in the neighborhood would really oppose that Yeah It was just amazing to think about that it bounced off the tree He didn't even hit it out there or sliced it out there You know, I had to hit hit a tree and then right at that moment of car had to be driving by It had I mean it was amazing And of course the car stopped and he went over there and they you know exchanged insurance stuff a lot good stuff the other the other question I have today I played with a couple of elderly ladies and They were sort of upset that they couldn't Drive their car out to their car to put the clubs in And i'm curious as to what controls that or can we open that up or not? to drive out for sunset For any of the courses Well twin twin peaks you can Oh, okay. Yeah, and that's how I go back and forth those two that's so I thought well twin peaks can why can't You know sunset Do you want me to go? Yeah, I'll kind of give a brief explanation to one of the one of the main reason reasons to why we don't do it at sunset is On a busy given day for sure like friday saturday sunday even today. I played myself As well out there today We don't have enough carts with single riders With everyone taking single riding carts and whatnot If there's four carts in a group and I've got you know right now we've got 12 rental cars that we get from massac and then we've gotten additional 27 I believe is that correct ryan? Yeah, 27 electrics at sunset one of which is still down. We're trying to figure out the error code that it's throwing um, so If if we do that I mean the problem when you finish a lot of players when they go to the parking lot They end up mingling they sit around they take their time It ends up being a little too slow for the 10 minute even with a 10 minute interval But trying to disinfect the cart get it cleaned and prepped for the next group. That's a small process by itself It's five to 10 minutes to turn the car and have it disinfected properly So that alone If I've got no carts and four carts come off and run to the parking lot and I have a group that's supposed to be teeing off Now that puts me in a dilemma that I could be five to 10 minutes even 15 minutes behind Then puts us into a small dilemma of well, you've got too many people gathering together That are not within the same household then if one person only takes one person to Contact boulder county or the city and that puts The pros ourselves under a little bit of heat because we have our own licenses For the food and beverage and liquor licenses and if any of that got shut down for any reason Then the city is going to look at us and say hey We've got to we've got to have a different conversation And we don't want to have to make a suggestion because I know a lot of the ladies that play in our twin peaks lake league Also play in the tuesday league Is there any chance that you can hire like a high school kid or something for the summer to help Carry bags out to the parking lot One issue with that in my opinion. I I'd love to do something like that But um a lot of people don't want others touching their their equipment And with ovid you're not supposed to touch someone else's equipment at this time So um and and who knows by the time Mark may rolls around with if all restrictions get lifted Then that's a different animal We that will all let carts go into the parking lot at that point If if I can justify that I have enough cars to survive At least three extra t times so we don't have a delay and and really The pace of play issue would be the next phase. So yeah, no, I understand I'm all about it at one point here soon. It's coming Hey, ryan, I wanted to ask you too. Did you guys get I know you had a lot of damage On the core sector that big snowstorm we had in In march it looks like you got all the branches and stuff cut down. Do you have any stats as to how many You know, how much you I think from what I remember recalling and ryan if you want to step in and if you know the number But I think we had around eight to nine Pretty large branches that came down Um ryan am I am I close? Yeah, I'd say somewhere in that ballpark. We didn't count them Specifically since the city's forestry department Came out and helped us clear a lot of the large ones. Oh, okay since they're since um Some were still attached to the trees themselves And they had to climb and use their bucket truck to get it and then they used their grappler truck to haul it away So a lot of that removal was out of was past our abilities but as of right now all of the We did not lose any One tree. It was this large branches off of trees, right? Any specific trees during it and right now they are all Picked up except for a few back behind the maintenance shop that are still Taking out back there. Got it. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Ryan. Any other questions? Jeff this is out final words Yeah, go ahead now Hey, I just want for the ones for sam and for tim, you know I live in that neighborhood of youth creek and that phase two is really intriguing because there is no Real bar on our whole side of town or a sit-down restaurant. So If we get that done, it'd be awesome. But um, I want to tell you guys I've been traveling extensively to florida, south carolina, and i'm in california And when I come I play other municipal courses Ours are far superior to anything i've played anywhere else. I mean all these other munis are just a mess They could take a page out of your guys book what you've done with our courses So and then the other the other thing same. Is there an actual menu for the snack bar? I have no idea those french fries and cheeseburgers and that am i missing it Or am I I just looking am I focusing on the bar? That's what I do when I go to the golf course as well. So um, You know, again, we we're not a restaurant. We are really a temporary snack bar setup with limited limited equipment to prepare meals So we do not have a menu, but I don't know if you notice in the slides But the picture that we had of the snack bar, there's a chalkboard you can write behind the counter there that has All of our stuff on it. I never could get past the drink deal for the menu. So Thanks Next time you're right. You got to try one of our hamburgers, man. They are delicious Jeff any final comments? Nope. Uh, thank you Sam and dan you did a great job on the presentation I thought there was a lot of good information. Yeah Ryan Hennings and Keith will be presenting at uh the next time we meet About twin peaks very good And jeff for yourself and uh calcium and waters, uh, do appreciate the uh volunteer gift certificate that was Sent the long our way Very much appreciated Thank you for that. Yep. Thank you. Thank all of you for all the time you put in to help us Thank you all If there's nothing else uh motion to adjourn Move adjourn Elgar proves or seconds All right, thank you all folks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone Thank you. We'll see you next time Bye. Bye. Cheers. Bye. Thank you Thanks, Nikki