the gift that keps on giving

Granted, any system depends on the honesty of its operators to work properly. The problems at the pool have been made apparent several times in several ways: no real admission controls, erratic and inconsistent record keeping, imaginary Optimist relationships, oppressive and punitive style of management, failure to protect employees from taping, rents running YEARS behind in some cases, claimed inablity to know how annual numbers are derived, lack of revenue details, supposed lack of knowledge regarding what fair market value is for our pool,etc. The deficits are myriad and many. Perhaps it is time to start looking at possible remedies to these problems so that they dont continue. Again, even the BEST systems being installed will NOT be effective if the the people running them are incompetent or dishonest, or both. The question seems to be- how much of the problem is in the SYSTEM, and how much is in the personnel? Perhaps it is the personnel involved that constitutes more of the problem than the system in place. Having a great, automatic, almost foolproof system in place with multiple checks and balances could minimize the manipulations of any rogue or less-than-honest personnel, no? None of this begins to address the $200 a month, or even $500 a month, fire-sale discounted gift that the taxpayers of MS give to MDAC every month.