A decision on whether to shut down Wichita’s Clapp Golf Course will have to wait for another day.
City Hall canceled a special meeting of the Park Board set for 4 p.m. Friday, where officials had planned to consider closing the course and freeing up part of the land for commercial and residential development. City staff notified news media of the closure through Twitter: “FYI: the Wichita Park Board MTG today about Clapp GC has been postponed due to scheduling of members. MTG to be resched at a later date.”
The golf course is at Harry and Oliver and is the smallest in the five-course golf system.
City staff is proposing to close the course as soon as possible.
The course has run a total of about $600,000 in the red since 2013, including a $235,000 operating deficit last year, a city staff report said.
Parks Director Troy Houtman says closing Clapp would just about make up for a $579,000 operating deficit in the overall golf system projected for next year.
(Read more: Wichita Eagle)