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The North Richland Hills City Council held a work session at 5:30 PM and a regular meeting at 7:15 PM on January 13, 2025, at City Hall, 4301 City Point Drive. Mayor Jack McCarty presided; Mayor Pro Tem Kelvin Deupree was absent. The work session covered creation of an NRH Links liaison subcommittee, a citizen capital program advisory committee and possible bond election, sign ordinance revisions, and City Manager updates. The regular meeting approved a consent agenda, a youth programs standards of care ordinance, drainage and generator contracts, an indoor aquatics HVAC award, and a Library Board appointment. Council entered executive session from 6:32 PM to 7:08 PM under Section 551.071 and took no action on that item.
Aaron demonstrated exceptional leadership and operational expertise and is responsible for driving impressive growth, enhancing the gust and golf experience, and elevating the club's standing as a premier golf course within Greater DFW Metroplex. Aaron is a proud alumnus of the University of Kansas, combines his management background with a deep appreciation for the game of golf outside of his professional accomplishments. He's a devoted family person. He and his wife Brianna are proud parents of a son, Landon, and a daughter, Riley. Aaron also supported the Iron Horse Kemper Sports Transition team when I Kemper came on as the management uh group in April of 2022. So he was familiar with Iron Horse at that time. We were thrilled to be able to have him come back in this general manager role. Um also this evening, Val DeSusa, the Kimper Sports Vice President of Operations is in attendance as well. And so I'll invite Aaron to just pop up for a second and just say hello. Um thank you here. Let me raise that up. I'm a little bit taller. Um thank you. Uh it's a pleasure to be here. I'm I'm extremely excited and and grateful for the opportunity to uh lead Iron Horse moving forward. Uh I'm I'm excited to be here. I believe that uh my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has called me and prepared me and equipped me for this exact opportunity. I am uh true competitor in every sense of the word. Um as a Kansas alum, you know basketball runs through my blood, so you uh I am I'm very competitive. I'm also a Chiefs fan, by the way. Um so I I've experienced a little bit of winning in the last few years. Um, but I don't that doesn't change. Uh I I'm a competitor, I like to win. There's no challenge that is too big or even too small, and I will not shy away from tough situations. But rather I will stare them in the face and meet them head on. These are opportunities to learn, to grow, and to improve, both for me personally and as a collective organization. My vision for Iron Horse Golf Course is to make it the premier daily fee golf course in the Fort Worth area. To do this, I brainstormed a little bit, and I'm a person who likes words and definitions, and so I would like to incorporate the four E's and uh through the term elevate. And uh, if you're like me, I I use elevate quite often. Um, but when I dove in and looked at the definition, I found that it was a lot more than maybe the way that I was using it. And the definition was to raise or lift something up to a higher position, and it also is to raise to a more important or impressive level. So the first phase of elevating is with the employees. I plan to educate and train and also empower the employees of Iron Horse Golf Course to make the right decision to serve our customer and golfer the way that they would expect to be treated at any other facility. The second um elevate is the experience. I want to elevate the overall experience of Iron Horse Golf Course and what a golfer or somebody who's coming in to dine in the restaurant or experiencing uh some of our catering events. I want to elevate the experience so that it is unlike anything they've seen from Iron Horse in the in the past. Once we've elevated the experience, I want to elevate the expectation. Once they've experienced it, they now have a level of expectation that is raised and elevated to the another level. And so we will I will expect my staff to recreate those experiences day in and day out. And the final uh elevation is the expansion or our customer reach. I believe that in this greater metro area, there's a lot of people who still have not uh been to or maybe participated or played around a golf at Iron Horse, and I think that uh with the population density as it is, that we have an opportunity to expand and elevate our customer reach. So with that, I thank you again for the opportunity. I'm excited uh to lead the team at Iron Horse and uh elevate to new levels.