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There is another item on Tuesday's ballot - one lost amid the brouhaha over beer sales and Sunday shopping. Cedar Hills voters will be asked to OK a ballot measure to refinance the city's struggling $6.4 million golf course, which lost $223,780 last fiscal year and is projected to lose another $300,000 this fiscal year. If voters approve, Cedar Hills will switch from the lease-revenue bond used to build the course to a lower-interest general obligation bond. Mayor Mike McGee says the change would save the city money, but wonders if enough voters are paying attention to the issue. In 2001, Cedar Hills voters approved the city taking over ownership of the golf course after feasibility studies showed it would be a moneymaker. Instead, it has been a financial drain that has saddled the city with payments it cannot make. Even if the golf loan is refinanced, city administrators are hoping to unload the course. "I had actually hoped, due to my naiveté, to have [sold it] by now," McGee says. "The wheels of bureaucracy do not move that fast." - Todd Hollingshead


