FLORISSANT — Mayor Robert Lowery has suspended two municipal golf course employees for alleged misconduct.

He declined to identify the employees or what led to the suspensions, done on Friday.

Lowery met with golf course employees Saturday to notify them of the action.

A police investigation should take about a week to complete, Lowery said.

He declined to comment further.

The 140-acre course opened in 1964 as Paddock Hills, a private club. The City Council bought the course about a decade ago for about $3 million because it wanted to provide inexpensive golfing to Florissant residents.

Since then, the city has spent $1 million renovating the course and club house.

According to a report last year, the course typically attracts about 30,000 rounds of golf annually.

Like many municipal courses, it struggles to break even, operating about $20,000* in the red annually.