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MARCH 14, 2018 | AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS

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a 40 percent interest in the company in return for a $250,000 investment. Day also says he gave Breuninger another $100,000 to reseed the course, which had turned brown after Gee shut off the water last summer. Among Day’s allegations is that the water shut-off is “causing an immediate and substantial and irreparable threat and injury to maintenance of the golf course.” “The golf course is immediately becoming ‘brown’ and will shortly be completely unplayable, resulting in nearly total loss of use to Club West Golf Management of its most valuable asset,” the suit states.

A long-running problem

Hinz said there’s little at this point that the association can do about the course’s condition and nothing it can do about the suit, calling it “a business dispute” that has generated “ugly accusations.” “The HOA has offered to lend whatever support we can,” Hinz told the AFN. “We’ll do anything in our power, but we can’t help him with his water bill and we can’t help him with his business plan.” The cost of water has been a problem for the course for at least three years – but the

(Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Photographer)

Club West Golf Course owner Richard Breuninger was all smiles last November.

history goes back further than that. In the mid-1980s, Phoenix had signed an agreement with the former Del Webb Development Company when it was building Club West to provide reclaimed water from a plant that the developer

would build. After 12 years, the city abandoned the plant, citing high operating costs, according to Club West resident Jim Lindstrom, who in 2016 spent months trying in vain to recruit enough homeowners to buy and run the course. Gee said he had an agreement to pay the city a discounted rate for potable water through 2015, but the city abruptly terminated it. In 2016, Lindstrom said the city never told homeowners about the water-sourcing problems from 2002 to 2013, or that it was substituting more expensive potable water for reclaimed water. Throughout that time, he noted, “The homeowners at Club West purchased homes with the understanding that the focal point for the community, the golf course, would be operated and maintained.” Two years ago, the HOA board sued Gee over the course’s deterioration after he turned off irrigation in June 2016, saying he could no longer afford to pay the water bills. That suit was dismissed with prejudice by mutual agreement last Dec. 17 – about three weeks after Breuninger bought the course from Gee for $1.3 million. Gee carries the mortgage on the property and

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told the AFN last week that Breuninger remains current on his payments. Even before the deal closed, Breuninger used Day’s $100,000 to over-seed the course, transforming the course by mid-November into its lost luster. Breuninger in November also alluded to having a plan to obtain cheaper water but declined to discuss specifics. Posted on the wall at the Club West clubhouse restaurant are three maps showing diagrams of a water transmission infrastructure from the SRP canal to the golf course. The restaurant, Biscuits, still draws patrons despite the course’s condition. Breuninger also talked enthusiastically about his plans for making the course semi-private and creating a lounge in the clubhouse that would include a cigar-smoking area and a wine bar for members. As of last week, the lounge area sported new flooring and wall treatments but had no furniture. A handwritten sign on the door read “Staff Only.” Gee said he, too, is surprised the course has so quickly fallen on hard times again, but he understands at least part of the problem confronting Breuninger. “It’s always been about the water,” he said.