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8 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER June 2020
Communications
Chair
By STEVE SWITZER
CCC Board approves
proposed merger of Golf
Course with Country Club
At its regular
monthly meeting
held May 5, the
CCC Board of Directors
approved
five resolutions
that pave the way
for the merger of
SWITZER
the Charbonneau
Golf Club (CGC)
and the Country Club. By the time this
article is published, the CGC shareholders
will be voting on the terms of
the agreement and the complete
agreement would have been made
available to our community.
The original planners of Charbonneau
intended that the Golf Course would be
owned and controlled by the Charbonneau
Community. That conception and
intention was derailed in the late 1980s,
and in 1990 a group of residents stepped
up, formed Charbonneau Golf Club, Inc.
(Golf Club), and purchased the golf
course from Charbonneau’s developer to
keep it from getting into the hands of
outside interests. Over the ensuing 30
years, there have been numerous good
faith attempts to unite Charbonneau
Country Club and the Golf Club, bringing
our community back together. Each
time it was attempted, issues arose that
derailed the process.
In 2018, a new dialogue was initiated
between the two organizations. Those
discussions were focused not about combining
the entities but seeking areas of
common purpose. Those discussions ultimately
resulted in a 30-year, non-exclusive
license agreement for use of the
garden terrace in exchange for construction
of a cover, now nearing completion,
by the Golf Club.
In late summer and early fall of 2018, a
project was undertaken to research legal
aspects of the long-term relationship between
the two entities, as well as their
individual relationships and agreements
with the Charbonneau developer. Hundreds
of pages of historical legal documents
were reviewed. Based on the
foundation of this developing positive relationship
the Golf Club began a tedious
legal research process of evaluating the
cause of prior negotiation derailments.
Legal research was conducted to either
validate or disprove the prior derailment
theories. It was time consuming. And it
was expensive. Without the financial
support of the driving range proceeds, it
could not have been undertaken.
Eventually, attorneys for both CGC
and CCC were brought together with
representatives of each board with the
intent to find a way to make this work.
Now, the last boxes have been checked,
the last terms negotiated, and the last
sentences have been restructured. The
relationship and the mutual trust between
these two key segments of our
community have continually improved
throughout this process. The relationship
has never been stronger. The trust
has never been higher.
The board has previously approved
successive non-binding term sheets. We
have spent hours reviewing the definitive
agreement. The attorney for CCC,
Michelle Da Rosa, and been continuously
involved with this process. Our due
diligence committee (DDC) carefully examined
every aspect of the golf course
operations. A summary of their report
has been available on the CCC website
for several weeks now.
Currently, the Country Club cannot
directly own and operate the golf course.
So, with advice of counsel, the Country
Club has formed a for-profit wholly
owned subsidiary corporation (Merger
Sub). The merger will take place between
Merger Sub and the Golf Club.
The Golf Club will then become a wholly
owned for-profit subsidiary of the Country
Club. The Country Club will not own
the golf course; it will own the company
that owns and operates the golf course
and be its sole shareholder.
Both in Kathy Harp’s president’s message
and Jim Gibbons’ article on golf
course usage, the agreement highlights
are discussed. The most important element
for the board before the vote was
the assurance of adequate golf course reserve
and that there will not be any impact
on residential dues in the foreseeable
future!
Kathy Harp, CCC Board president,
said: “These resolutions fulfill the promise
and commitment of our board to
reach an agreement with CGC that that
speaks to the future of our entire Charbonneau
community. I want to thank
past board members that have worked
so hard on this merger, as well as our
current board. I want to especially thank
Gary Newbore, John McClain, and Jim
Gibbons for their work on the due diligence
report. And, without a doubt, we
are indebted to director Gene Tish for
his countless hours, expertise, patience,
and guidance through the final months
of this process.”
WILSONVILLE
DISTRIBUTES
SMALL
BUSINESS
GRANTS
By CITY OF WILSONVILLE
City awards funds to 125
local enterprises
At the May 4 meeting of
the Wilsonville City
Council, the council finalized
allocations from the
$400,000 Small Business COVID-19
Relief Grants Program, amending
the program to award an additional
$1,500 each to 38 qualifying businesses
in the tourism/hospitality
sector with awards funded by City
Transient Lodging Tax (TLT) revenues.
City staff hosted a brief lottery to
complete the process of awarding
funds to applicants eligible for grant
funding by the City’s Urban Renewal
Agency (URA) program income.
Among the 162 eligible applicants, the
city funded 87 grants from the
$200,000 URA pool.
Overall, the city awarded 125
grants to Wilsonville enterprises to
help mitigate the harmful economic
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The temporary Small Business CO-
VID-19 Relief Grants Program was
developed with input from the Wilsonville
Area Chamber of Commerce.
See BUSINESS / Page 9
CHARBONNEAU
VILLAGER
Inside the
Villager
New year, new
management
— Page 2
Thank you,
Cindy! — Page 10
Singles club
goes all
female — Page 15
Changes
for board
nominations
— Page 8
Plus Event Calendar,
all club reports and
more!
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� CHARBONNEAU, OREGON
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their hearts
— Page 6
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