The board of the Humboldt Golf Club is continuing to make progress with turning around the organization that has had a couple roller coaster years.

The HGC annual general meeting took place last Thursday night at the clubhouse with a good crowd of members on hand to hear the latest details, many likely interested in hearing about the financials.

The financial report did have some positive news in it, also some issues to continue to mend.

A healthy revenue increase of $45,000 from 2014 to 2015 is a good start.

"You know it's taken a lot of steps to get there and memberships did go up a little bit last year so we did see an increase there," explained president Matt Niekamp. "We definitely need that to keep moving forward."

Niekamp contributes their new 'trip of the month' lottery which sold out as a huge help financially.

Membership dollars were up $11,000, the pro-shop dropped in sales by just under $5,000 but that was easily offset by the $40,000 more in restaurant and lounge sales from 2014 to 2015.

"The restaurant and lounge, we have had a couple different things in the past there but I think we've got that under control here a little bit as well," Niekamp added. "We've got somebody in there that's going to run it and run it good, it started out here Monday already and we've had some pretty god feedback already from that."

During the AGM the board introduced their new manager, Chad Keens. He has a wealth of experience working with smaller clubs so the board is confident he will do positive things during his time here.

Despite the good news with revenue, curbing the spending is a must. The expenses rose just under $70,000.

"Everything seems to be climbing, whether it's buying chemicals for the greens and things like that or things overall, everything is climbing pretty fast so we need to get control over that," Niekamp admitted.

Another obstacle is also coming the board's way, in September the back nine will be off limits due to work the City of Humboldt is under going with storm water pipes. They are constructing storm water pipes that will transfer water from other parts of the city to the Water Ridge ponds just of the south corner of the beautiful 18 hole course.

The board and course staff met with the city last week to hear more details and find out exactly what they are up against.

Niekamp says they are going to cooperate fully and hope the work doesn't effect them and slow their momentum.

"I think we are going to work really close with the city here because we really can't afford to lose too much business over this. We do want to help out, we are all citizens of Humboldt and all know about the problems that exist in the town here so we've got to help out as much as we can with alleviating the water issues as is."

It's expected holes 14, 15 and 16 will see the most work done as the pipes are installed. That's expected to begin in September.

You can hear more from Niekamp below in his interview with Bolt FM's Clark Stork.