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Owners Urged to Engage in Legislature During
Town Hall Session

At NGCOA's Tuesday morning conference session, Golf's Town Hall, Tim Skubick, a journalist and host of the Michigan public television show, Off the Record, discussed several approaches that golf course owners can take to influence the legislative process.

 The theme of his presentation, in which he walked around a packed ballroom and asked attendees about their own involvement with the legislative process, was clear: Get involved. If you don’t engage, bad things will happen to you.

Here are some of Skubick’s tips:

Get to know your representatives. Attend functions with your local and state representatives and introduce yourself. Get to know their staffers and secretaries, too.

Work together. Find groups, such as superintendants, with similar interests and work together to fight or support legislation. There’s strength in numbers...more