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Laurelwood and the Audubon Plan <br />Part of contractual obligations agreed between the city and Market Properties was to <br />become Audubon certified. This certification is usually achieved at large financially <br />secure facilities. It requires state of the art maintenance areas to deal with the <br />equipment used. Wash pads with separation capabilities. These are obligations that <br />the city has begun addressing within their master plan. However, in this economic <br />climate there is no time table for the city to accomplish the current master plan for <br />which they have designed. <br />We have a proposal from a student within the University of Oregon <br />environmental program that lays out a plan to begin the certification, as far as course <br />compliance is concerned. There are several features to his plan that create benefits. <br />Whether it is part of an Audubon certification plan, or just a plan implemented by us <br />for reasons we believe are good business decisions. By implementing this strategy we <br />can improve the look of the course, help many of the drainage issues, decrease use <br />of machinery, fertilizer and irrigation. All of these things will increase revenue while <br />decreasing expenditures. Our initial investigations show that it would cost between <br />$10,000 - $20,000 to implement. <br />AUDUBON <br />INTERNATIONAL <br />