Wednesday, November 12, 2008

pool info needed

A Freedom of Information request was made a couple days ago requesting a copy of the new Rec Directors application. Another FOI request was made today for a record of all the revenues derived from special events ie meets, etc., and swim team practices,for the past 3 years. The last FOI so far has to do with the weekly or monthly records of pool admissions and the resultant revenues for the past 5 years. Lets see how long it takes them to respond and what the numbers are. The City Clerk is NOT aware of ANY contracts associated with pool activities. A resident asked the Asst City manager today in his office if the Asst City Manager was aware of any fabricating or padding of admission numbers at the pool. The Asst city Manager refused to answer and ordered the resident out of his office, saying that the resident will have to make a FOI request for any pool information. It was a simple YES or NO question and is peculiar in that just last night Mr Gorland directed the same resident to come to him with any questions he may have about the pool or Rec Center. When the resident agrees to his request and follows thru, he is ordered out of his office. Some alternative honest reponses might have been, "NO". "YES", "No but I will seriously look into it and let you know what we find"; "YES, it has been a problem in the past but we have resolved it, and THIS IS HOW we did it"; or "I have no idea what you are talking about". None of those possibilities happened. If somebody was making up numbers or stealing money by not reporting admissions in MY business, I would want to know it, and I think most honest businessmen would want to know too. Why do our City officials NOT want to know? There is no reason to suspect any of the lifeguards at the present time but it WOULD have to be somebody who handles the monies on a regular basis.

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