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Extracted from Consolidated Report

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Madera County Grand Jury • 2023-2024

Revisited 2023-2024 Madera County Grand Jury Final Report 2324-06 June 19, 2024*

Published: June 19, 2024 22 pages
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Findings 16 findings

F1
The MCGJ finds that the City has followed the 2009 Lease by establishing the Golf Course Advisory Committee to inspect, discuss, and report monthly to the City with findings and
F2
The MCGJ finds there is no current Inventory list of City owned personal property and fixtures located at the MMGC.
F3
The MCGJ finds that after 13 years the City has enforced one section in the Lease by requiring SGM to pay for the 2023 mandatory annual USGA report which was received in August 2023.
F4
The MCGJ finds that the City's PCS has failed to inspect, inventory, or comment to the 2022 consultant's 96-page ADA report evaluating the conditions at the MMGC.
F5
The MCGJ finds that the City has failed to understand the Lease and the series of nine amendments that have generated confusion hindering the orderly exercise, reasonable oversight, and enforcement over the MMGC tenants, maintenance, and capital improvement obligations.
F6
The MCGJ finds that the City business license application processing has no written procedures and thus no safeguards against fraudulent applications.
F7
The MCGJ finds that the logos and name Madera Municipal Golf Course are often omitted from signage, scorecards, announcements, menus, events, websites, etc.
F8
The MCGJ finds that the golf course kitchen and bar have not been operated by Sugar Pine Smokehouse.
F9
The MCGJ finds that the City made the written statement that no applications or City business licenses exist for GROUP.
F10
The MCGJ finds that the use of CI money has been discussed by the City and SGM as being used for deferred maintenance at the MMGC.
F11
The MCGJ finds that the City Tax Collector has no system to track businesses within the City to ensure that the City is receiving prompt and continuous tax payments.
F12
The MCGJ finds that the City of Madera has had discussions about writing one coherent consolidated MMGC Lease with SGM.
F13
The MCGJ finds that the City has repeatedly failed to ascertain or confirm the true identity of SGM's purported subtenant(s) at the MMGC.
F14
The MCGJ finds that SGM appears to have two subtenants: Smokehouse for the food service, and the undisclosed bar operator GROUP.
F15
The MCGJ finds that the Interim Fire Marshal recommended that the MMGC be brought up to both the ADA requirements and the City Building Code due to serious violations.
F16
The MCGJ finds that the City has failed to ensure that its tenant and subtenants at the MMGC have performed their daily maintenance obligations under the Lease

Recommendations 16

Conclusions 1

* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.