The Concord City Council next week will consider a five-year agreement with a new company for maintenance of the Diablo Creek Golf Course off of state Highway 4. A previous company, BrightView Golf Maintenance, had a contract with the city since 2006 to provide golf course maintenance services at Diablo Creek but notified city staff that they would not seek to renew their contract when it expired at the end of 2025.
The city in August had issued a request for proposals for maintenance of the publicly owned 18-hole course on Port Chicago Highway, but no responses were received by a Sept. 16 deadline. Joe Fernandez, who manages golf operations at the course, was notified of the lack of responses and then submitted a proposal via his newly created company East Bay Golf Course Maintenance LLC.
City staff are recommending that the City Council at its meeting Tuesday approve a five-year agreement for an amount not to exceed $1.3 million annually for the first two years, with an additional 3.25-year option that would extend the agreement into 2034.
The staff report for Tuesday’s meeting noted that the prior contractor said its choice not to renew “was not a result of any flaw with Diablo Creek or concerns with their working relationship with the city,” and that the course’s current superintendent and other key staff will remain in place. The report expressed confidence in Fernandez taking over the contract based on “his stable long-term working relationship with the city and his comprehensive golf course operations knowledge,” and noted, “Customers frequently comment that Diablo Creek has the best tees and greens of any municipal golf course in the East Bay.”
The City Council meeting is planned for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers at 1950 Parkside Drive, Concord.
OMG! The residents have been swindled into funding elitist gardening services here all this time. I knew the place was a con artist play ground and why I don’t go. They also hold fake Concord American LIttle League Board Meetings there all of them drink their poison and plot against our youth kids keep them from playing real baseball. Council please do not fund any sort of camo-elitist-gardening-services ending naturally soon Thank God. The struggling residents of this city do not want to subsidize golf so elitist con artist can Talk serving the public fooling around acting playing a classy game embarrassing the game conning residents into working for them in the most subordinate acts to fancy their egos acting manly.
Let them fund their own degenerate lives not at our expense and pick their own weeds and trim their own grass only them ever get to enjoy.
It’s a municipal golf course, you can go out and play any time you want! I do agree it would be nice to see some of that money go to fixing up JOBL though.
Yup cause other than low income housing & useless apartment complexes all over the city (which mind you all are under 30% occupied) Concord definitely needs to worry about $1.3Mill to keep up a golf course. Wonder why Concord is becoming a cesspool of unhoused, criminals and druggies. Thanks Concord Officials.
Golf courses are the last bastion of freedom away from well you know…well hockey games also, and NASCAR I guess is still in that category.
The Seeno’s have a lot of business in the area so I wonder if they have any ideas or recommendations on best approach for the golf course and the City Council to move forward on this..
I’m surprised they would give a 1.8 Million Dollar contract contract to a brand new company. That does not sound like the greatest governance. Has Mr. Fernandez run a business other than managing operations? That’s lot of taxpayer money to entrust with a brand new business. Less than a month to submit bids and conduct an evaluation. Something isn’t passing the smell test.