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Ocean Pines Golf and Country Club

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor

(Sept. 20, 2018) A special meeting last Saturday concerning renovations at the Ocean Pines Golf and Country Club was canceled because the directors agreed the session wasn’t needed, according to Association President Doug Parks.

Parks said it was “agreed the time could be used more effectively” by meeting with contractor Davis, Bowen & Friedel Inc. and General Manager John Bailey to discuss updating the existing request for proposals.

During a Sept. 8 regular board meeting, Bailey recommended eliminating four optional, or “add alternate,” items from the request for proposals and adding six others.

He also advised replacing existing shingles and flashings, rather than redesigning or replacing the entire roof.

At the time, Bailey said the due date for bids was revised to Oct. 5 and the board would have an opportunity to review bids during the next regular meeting, scheduled Oct. 20.

According to Bailey, Association Vice President Steve Tuttle and Directors Slobodan Trendic and Frank Daly attended the meeting on Friday, and Director Ted Moroney participated by conference call for about 10-15 minutes.

Also present, at Bailey’s invitation, were Treasurer and Budget and Finance Committee Chairman John Viola, budget and finance committee members Frank Brown and Larry Perrone, and Facilities Manager Kevin Layfield.

“Several directors and the GM met with DBF on Friday, and the recommended changes regarding moving a number of the ‘add alternate’ items into the base bid and removing some of the items altogether will be incorporated into the RFP,” Parks said.

“As far as revised dates, I did discuss with DBF after everyone had left and I am waiting to hear back from them, hopefully in the next day or so, on a summary of issues discussed and for confirmation of the revised dates we discussed on Friday,” Bailey added.