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Missouri City to Create Recreation and Leisure Local Government Corporation

The Missouri City City Council approved a resolution at its May 4 meeting to create the Missouri City Recreation and Leisure Local Government Corporation, a nonprofit entity, to aid the City in the acquisition, improvement, maintenance and operation of certain public parks and public recreation facilities, including the Quail Valley Golf Course.

All revenues and expenditures at the golf course will be maintained through the new, non-stock corporation. State law provides a mechanism for local governments, including cities, to create such nonprofit associations, called local government corporations.

“It is the City's intent that the Quail Valley Golf Course be a self-sustaining enterprise,” said City Manager Frank Simpson. “Forming this local government corporation is a big step toward being able to accomplish that. The corporation will have its own set of accounts, allowing for separate tracking of revenues and expenditures for all its operations and maintenance. The corporation will then be able to benchmark those accounts against others in the industry.”

Simpson said setting up this new corporation will also allow for flexibility in meeting the golf course's needs for outsourcing certain aspects of operations and maintenance, as well as for a work force that includes more part-time employees than other City operations.

This model has been implemented at other municipally-owned golf courses and Missouri City believes this will be the most effective manner to operate Quail Valley Golf Course, according to Simpson.

The City will maintain ownership of all 400 acres of green space that comprise the Quail Valley Parks project, including the golf course. Members of the City Council will serve as the corporation's Board of Directors and will consider agreements for the corporation to operate and maintain the Quail Valley Golf Course. The corporation is being set up so other possible future City facilities, such as a tennis center or community center, could also be operated and maintained by the corporation.