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In an attempt to eliminate red ink, the city of Janesville, Minnesota may seek a private-sector operator for Prairie Ridge Golf Course.
“We don’t want to have an option out there that we didn’t explore,” Mayor Mike Santo told the Janesville Argus.
The Joel Goldstrand-designed track – the only nine-hole, reversible golf course in southern Minnesota, according to the Argus – has, like so many U.S. municipal courses, found it difficult to turn a profit in recent years. The losses aren’t large — $57,000 in 2008, $66,500 in 2010, $11,400 in 2012 — but they’re enough to cause financial headaches in a city of 2,300.
The mayor and his colleagues on the city council plan to spend the next few months researching their options.