Ripon Golf Club — the 9-hole city-owned course at the end of Jack Tone Road — could see $166,491 of improvement in the coming months.

The Ripon City Council is considering matching half of the expenditures requested by Sierra Golf Management — the contracted course operator — that would be funded from the city’s Golf Course Capital Improvement Account Fund.

The city’s share would $83,245.

There is currently $590,000 in the account.

The work would include:

*$64,208 for the construction of a new maintenance shed building with a concrete pad for equipment storage.

*$2,915 to place trees along the eastern edge of the driving range to help reduce the loss of golf balls.

*$43,365 to install new fencing to enclose the maintenance yard.

*$22,375 for the replacement of 100 damaged sprinkler heads and adapters associated with the irrigation system.

*$8,525 for the removal and repair of dry rot, followed by painting of the club house building.

*$22,828 for repair of failed pump.

*$2,274. For renovation of bunkers, including digging out dirt/grass, install a drainage system, and place new bunker sand.

The council golf committee noted a portion of what the city would help fund normally would not quality as a long-term capital improvement, for which the account was established.

The committee recommends that the City Council consider a one-time funding for those items for the following reasons:

*A significant amount of deferred maintenance was not addressed by the previous lessee. Approval of 50% funding for these items would allow SGM to advance these improvements.

*SGM will self-perform the sprinkler system replacement and bunker renovation using inhouse personnel and is not requesting reimbursement for labor costs, only half of the cost of materials.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com