HRGR Golf Course Conditions Update

Greens

The growth of new grass on the greens continues at a pace with the arrival of the hotter daytime temperatures and the improved growing conditions for this type of paspalum grass. Treatment by the ground staff has continued constantly over the last month. 

The average percentage coverage of grass has risen from about 50% a month ago to nearer 80% now on many greens. 

The greens are looking significantly better and we are confident, looking at the recent growth and coverage improvements, that the greens will totally recover. However there is a down-side to this recovery process. Unfortunately the rolling of the ball over the greens surface is actually worse now than a month ago as this new grass has grown and the areas of less-strong grass still growing gives larger inconsistencies in levels of height. 

This rolling deviation should reduce significantly as the growing grass finally fills the gaps and a more even and consistent coverage of strong grass across the greens as a whole is achieved. We still feel that it will be several weeks minimum, at this rate of progress, before we have good playable conditions on the greens. The following picture shows the condition of the practice green, which is quite typical of the average condition of the other greens on the course.

 

IRM have confirmed that they have taken a positive step towards improvements in the condition of all their courses by employing a new Course Maintenance and Management company, to replace the previous company, Selprats

Reviews

 Source: click here

Caribbean Day, Carols Bar, Sucina

Paramount Murcia gains 16M euros in EU subsidy

Premursa also announced that they had been successful in obtaining funding from the Regional Incentives Board of the Ministry of Works & Finance, in obtaining an EU subsidy to the value of almost EU17 Mln.Latest estimations are that the park will open to the public sometime between December 2015 and January 2016.

Murcia to operate both San Javier AND Corvera until 2016

The Region of Murcia will see two airports in operation between 2014 and 2016.

Minister of Development Manuel Campos told the regional assembly how Corvera Airport will be opened before the end of 2014, however San Javier airport can not be closed before the end of 2016.

According to Campos, the smaller and older airport will not be closed sooner as the Spanish Airports Authority - AENA - will be required to operate the facility until such a time in order to justify the EU funding they received for development of the airport - specifically the EU25 Mln runway extension - in 2011.

Meanwhile, the decision by the European Commission to permit the opening of Corvera airport is due to be made later in July, with the legalities of the EU177 Mln loan guarantee by the regional government being under scrutiny.

EC approval of the loan guarantee would essentially allow the concession holder of Corvera airport, Aeromur, to guarantee their repayments between 2014 and 2023, and with a commitment to make repayments up to 2050 with an interest rate of 4.87%.

None of the major airlines currently flying into San Javier Airport have made any reference to when - or if - they will transfer operations to Corvera Airport.

Time for the Committee to stand aside!

After months and months of committee infighting and formal confirmation that the Resort President can no longer stand being in the same room as other committee members, then a number of questions need to be raised:

• Why didn't Committee minutes reflect what was actually going on?
• Shouldn't Resortalia have prepared formal minutes accurately?
• Can Resortalia now be trusted to accurately inform all owners and protect their interests?

• Should other Committee members now consider their positions especially for not telling the complete truth? The following response is one clear example:

"

"

• Why are we not being correctly informed:

The honourable thing to do is for the complete committee to consider their positions and stand aside as they are now all tainted by the cover up and mess that has resulted.

12 months on, no change for the better!

The Association reported the following in July 2013:

The current Resort Committee and Resortalia are not clear communicators or choose to ignore owner issues completely. In addition:

- Some Phase Presidents do not communicate to their owners at all.
- The Resort Committee is split
- Responses on owner issues raised to Phase Presidents, the Committee or President are very poor
- Compliance with our Statutes is hit and miss.

This is why with the ever increasing number of concerns we will focus on:
1) Transparency of service levels agreements v costs
2) Debtors, ownership and communication
3) Street Lights, roads and rubbish collection ownership, transfer and costs
4) Repaint resort implications
5) Retender Resortalia contract
6) Relocation of workers compound 7) Statutes Compliance
8) Health & Safety Compliance

We aim to drive positive change for the resort with Cost Effective Transparency and Communications whereby collectively owners issues can be explored and progressed.
HRGR Association

 The writting was clearly on the wall!

HRGR Owners that really do care 

Resort President resigns due to Committee in-fighting.

Time for action and change!

The writing was really on the wall....................

•  13.5M euros professional assessment for building repairs and only 1.35M euros awarded

• Now we have another 2M euros +++++ for ongoing maintenance! - more like 4M in reality. Only 250K euros budgeted!

• And increased substantial BAD DEBTS yet to be budgeted.

The writing was really on the wall....................