pool numbers distilled

IF, and its a BIG IF, the payments by MDAC for the past year WERE made, that would total $2400, right? That is ONE TEAM, paying a pittance. How can the revenues from Aquatics/polo be estimated to be $2150 for the WHOLE YEAR? Adding the possible $1500 each from Reagan and Columbus high schools, the $2400 from the polo team, the theoretical $750 per day for meets, MSSH, and the middle schools and they get ONLY $2150? That is impossible of course. Either their numbers are NO WHERE close to reality IF they have collected all those monies, OR they actually DIDNT COLLECT those monies and the $2150 is accurate! Neither conclusion is acceptable. Can it be that, for accounting purposes, they cant tell the difference between a 100-strong private swim team, meet revenues, the high schools, the middle schools and the handful of daily local swimmers from Oct-April??? THAT would be preposterous, right? The terms immensely and incomprehensibly inept and incompetent come to mind, at the VERY least! For the City Manager to tell a resident in his ofice that he has NO idea where his pool revenue numbers were derived from, is simply unbelievable!!!! Especially when he pulls out a quarterly report, flips thru the pages while the resident is there, and says he keeps a close watch on THOSE VERY FIGURES and details that they were discussing! Either he DOESNT have the figures and has NO idea where they are (which is just incredibly incompetent), or he DOES know where they are and keeps a close watch on them (but doesnt want anybody else to see them)! WHICH IS IT? How can ANYBODY believe ANYTHING he has to say? The fabricated Optimist connection? Secret backroom handshake deals? He works in the shadows, out of sight, where nobody can see what he is doing; a practitioner of the purposefully obscure. Is this what we want in our city officials? Honest administrators strive for transparency because they have NOTHING to hide!