Colonial Country Club
Community Development District

A Ride Around Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Colonial Country Club Community Development District was scheduled to be held on September 24, 2025 at 8:00 a.m., meeting under the portico outside the Colonial Country Club in Fort Myers, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Sally Hefti – Chair
Giovanna Scuderi – Vice Chair
Howard Klein – Assistant Secretary
Joseph Zajac – Assistant Secretary

Also present were:

Mandie Rainwater, Assistant District Manager, Premier District Management (PDM)
Chris Pepin, Field Manager, Community Field Services
Patrick Tohill, Director of Agronomy, Colonial Country Club

The following is a summary of the actions taken at the Colonial Country Club Community Development District (CDD) Board of Supervisors ride around meeting.

The Colonial Country Club Community Development District Ride Around Meeting was called to order at 8:01 a.m. Four Board members were present and constituted a quorum. Also in attendance were Assistant District Manager Rainwater, Field Manager Pepin, and Director of Agronomy Patrick Tohill.

There were no Audience comments on Agenda items.

The Board and staff conducted an inspection of CDD assets and projects.

A. Visit the Lakes Impacted by Golf Course Renovation

The Board and staff utilized golf carts to travel the recently completed construction areas of the golf course, and Pat Tohill lead the tour. Below are some comments and items mentioned in this portion of the meeting:

• Tour began at a putting green area.
• Enka mat was utilized as shoreline stabilization along the peninsula to prevent future washouts. It is a rubber spindled material, which is anchored by grass roots. It was noted that Enka mat is the blue material then visible on Lakes 1 and 18.
• During the project the Club installed 70 Royal Palm trees and 7 Sable Palms.
• There was discussion on new putting and chipping greens.
• The tour moved to fairway 5.
• Where Calla Lilies were dug out, more Callas and grass plants will be added. A cart path was moved to the left of where it was prior.
• Chair Hefti noted positively that a Wisteria was removed.
• It was noted that the bulkhead was not moved. Mr. Tohill noted that many of the proposed changes to bulkheads were shelved. He suggested that items removed should be put on a 5, 10, 20-year future plans.
• Pat Tohill noted that many “snake” washouts were caused by littoral plants.
• Many trees were removed.
• Many areas added littorals, and no Spike Rush was planted in favor of Calla Lilies, Arrowhead and Pickerel. Turf grass was installed and will help prevent washouts.
• The tour moved on 11 tee box.
• Mr. Tohill explained the new structure of the sand traps, which used Capillary Concrete which is permeable, and has a fabric liner at the bottom. This should help to prevent washouts. The sand should stay white, as this structure will prevent the sand from combining with dirt below it.
• Mr. Tohill noted that from Cypress to Royal Palm, the lake banks were changed. There were no washouts except for 7, 9, 3, 5, and 10 and 12 tee.
• He noted that the Club was only required to put littorals on lakes with bulkheads, per the permit. Nevertheless, they did add littorals and sod to stabilize shorelines at the last two holes.
• A 25’x50’ island area was removed – a “waste area”.
• On 3, 6, 9, and 12, there was $50,000 worth of drainage added.
• 18 is the last area of the tour, and the green has doubled in size.
• Mr. Tohill has a crew going out to fix washouts, and he will keep in touch with Field Manager Pepin over next months about washout repair needs. There will be a SFWMD inspection tour to look at the project completion, to which the CDD will be invited. There will also be a City of Fort Myers inspection to close out the project.
• This course will be cart path only until May, which will reduce the traffic on the course. The Members and the Maser Board may make a decision to allow driving on the grass, but Mr. Tohill will advise against it. The Weather can affect that timeline as well, noting that if there are two more months of 80s and 90s, that might speed the end of cart path only traffic to February or so.
• Mr. Tohill summarized that more bunkers, more turf, and more staff are needed, and less traffic, so revenue will take a year or two to catch up. The reserves started 10 years ago and should have been started in 2003. So, reserves will start immediately for next renovations.

Patrick left the meeting at 9 a.m. The Tour was then at the Clubhouse area.

B. Visit the Butterfly Gardens

Everything at the Butterfly Garden looked watered and irrigation appeared to be running. Field Manager Pepin noted the watering schedule of the other garden has issues and dries out quickly.

C. Visit the Boardwalk

The raised up boards and the Cypress tree trunk cut out were all completed since the last inspection.

Field Manager Pepin said he believed there is an agreement for the Club to clean debris off of the boardwalk.  Community Field Services and the Club also trim overgrowth from the preserves into the walkway, and it might be time to do it again. Field Manager Pepin will reach out to Mr. Tohill to trim overgrowth. Field Manager Pepin notes that the permit allows preservations to be trimmer where they encroach on other properties.

Chair Hefti observed that the water levels in preserve were at a depth 2.5 feet.

Supervisor Zajac said he saw that there was a warning sign being installed for bicycles, but he noted there aren’t supposed to be bikes on the path.

Tour moved on to the second Butterfly Garden.

Field Manager Pepin said that he will present some proposals from Gonzalo Ayres of Pristine Lakes and Wetlands to clean up invasives on the wall, and some other things as part of the $5,000 service credit that the Board approved at the last regular meeting. These proposals will be provided to the Board when received.

Supervisor Zajac reminded the Board that the next meeting begins at 1 p.m. in the Media Room, and remains at 1 p.m. for the rest of Fiscal Year 2026.

There were no audience comments.

The Next Regular Meeting: October 27, 2025 at 1 p.m. in the Media Room