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memo continued.. Entry fees for swimmers (on a per event basis) are collected by the host team. 20% of those fees goes to Fla Gold Coast Swimming Assn., the remaining 80%remain with the host team. There is also a "facility" charge which is the money usually set aside for the rental of the pool facility for the meet. This fee raised $798 ($3 per swimmer times 266 swimmers) toward the $1350 payment of the pool rental charge to the City.... these are figures for the last pool meet, I assume, and are 60-100 less swimmers than the meet Directors said were there. It is certainly open to conjecture if the city officials consistently underestimate and under-report the numbers of swimmers, at meets and at practices. Comments? medals, ribbons, awards, pay to officials (starter, stroke and turn judges, meet officials, food for coaches, etc.) are paid out of these funds... those appear to be valid expenses but dont sound like they are all that expensive, less than $1000, when compared to the monies taken in by the host team (estimated to be over 15k for the last meet).