About Alamo City Golf Trail
The Municipal Golf Association San Antonio (MGASA) is a non-profit corporation that has partnered with the City of San Antonio to operate the City’s seven golf facilities and be stewards of municipal golf. In May 2007, City Council approved a ten-year management agreement with the MGASA to improve the golf facilities and to manage their operation. The Board consists of interested citizens who have shown a keen interest in public golf and/or have been appointed by Council to represent the City in this endeavor. These individuals have volunteered their time and efforts to help municipal golf in San Antonio flourish.
Board of Directors
EX OFFICIO (VOTING MEMBERS)
Appointed by San Antonio City Manager
Pat DiGiovanni, Deputy City Manager
Ben Gorzell, Finance Director
CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEES
Representatives of Citizens
Gabe Farrias - City of San Antonio
George Fernandez, Siemans Corporation
2nd-Vice-Chairman
Henry Galindo, University of the Incarnate Word
Lou Miller, Community Leader/Insurance Executive
Louis Terrazas, Tele Communications
Ricardo Villasenor, Investment Banker
ELECTED AND FOUNDING MEMBERS
Reid Meyers, Attorney, Mediator
Chairman
Paul Perry, Certified Public Accountant
Vice-Chairman
Cindy Jorgensen, CFO Southwest Business Corporation
Treasurer
Pat McMahan, President, Alamo Isurance Group
Secretary
Thomas Aguillon, Time Warner Cable & Pan American Golf
Lee Niles, Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc.
Mikal Harn, Independent Business Man
NON-VOTING ADVISORS
Chip Haass, Former San Antonio City Councilman
Tony Piazzi, CEO of Golf San Antonio
Early in calendar year 2007, the City of San Antonio transferred the operations of the golf course from the Parks Department, to a separate City department reporting directly to the City Manager’s office. PGA Professional Jim Roschek and GCGSA Superintendent Brad Fryrear were hired as temporary City employees to oversee the existing operations and to pave the way for the MGASA to gradually assume the seven City facilities. The City not only entrusted the MGASA to operate its golf courses, it funded the organization with $9.4 million to renovate and improve the courses that had lacked the resources over the past decade to make needed improvements. The MGASA, in turn, pledged to borrow an additional $3.3 million to give all the golf courses a needed face lift.
Cedar Creek was the first facility to matriculate to the MGASA on October 1, 2007. The MGASA gained management of Olmos Basin and San Pedro Driving Range and Par 3 on March 1st of this year. On October 1st, Brackenridge and Riverside will join the MGASA umbrella. By spring of 2009, all seven City of San Antonio facilities will be managed by the MGASA.
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