pool ponderings

Pages 50 and 51 were NOT found on the City's website. Where would they be located? The desired information is in regards to pool revenues and expenditures. Others have been able to find this information, and its good to know its out there, but it needs to be seen and analyzed for oneself, or in conjunction with knowledgable others.

Looks like the Oct revenues will be $3142. Of course $1100 was received from the GMAC swim meet. Oct 6th took in $791.20 total, $400 of which was under swim lessons and $385.20 was for rentals. $246 was in cash, and the rest was in checks. Was that another meet? districts? who paid those monies? Who paid that $400 by check? Was it one swim club and several? 58 MDAC swimmers, 21 Columbus, 19 Springs. 4 aerobics noted but no charges were made or received. One lap swimmer noted but not charged. Inconsistent billing, payments that were made are not differentiated into who paid for what, and the majority of the revenues billed for swim lessons that never happened. Whose on first? Goofy? Mismanagement, lack of accountibility and oversight, and chaos at the pool. Another city fiasco, more money NOT accounted for- when does it end? EVER? It seems clear that if the swim teams pay their money for their use of the pool to practice to the City Manager directly, he needs show where that money is, no? How much have they paid to him over the years? Where is that money reflected?

pool ponderings

A current schedule of charges for use of recreation facilities and related services shall be approved from time to time by resolution of the City Council after submission for approval by the administration. (Ord. 655-81, p ed 9-14-81) How much did the City Council authorize the City Manager to charge as rental for our pool for meets? for swim practices? Are those revenues reflected ANYWHERE? If not, why not? The website projected figures for the 2007-08 Waterpolo/Aquatics is $2150 for this whole year. The standard charges for Dade Co. pool rentals are $165 an hour. Sixteen hours times $165 = $2640, for ONE MEET! And we have supposedly rented our pool for NUMEROUS meets this year! Where are THOSE revenues reflected? the GMAC meet? The pool revenues for 2006-07 were $4200, $1250 for the FY 2005-06,and $1872 for the FY 2004-05, supposedly. How many meets did we have at our pool those years? On another page we get DIFFERENT numbers: $100 for 2005-06; $4400 for 2004-05. For FY 2003-04, FIVE YEARS AGO, there is ZERO revenues listed. We had NO meets that year? No water polo? No scuba? No pool birthday parties? How so? No swim practices? No GMAC? These numbers are very questionable, at best, and brings into question the veracity of all the other numbers presented. For this reason alone an outside independent audit is needed NOW.

welcome mat

Finally! Somebody to answer and explain these nagging questions: start by explaining how this awesome management team is losing 260k+ this year; then explain how these guys have NO documentation or verification of daily admissions, nor swim practices; it would also be nice to hear your explanation of why there are no contracts OR monies received by the City for meets or practices. We finally have someone who can fill us in on exactly how many Springs kids are on the MDAC team! Yeah! I am sure there is an interesting take on the different numbers listed as pool revenues THREE and FOUR years ago on the MS website. And, just for curiosities sake, it would be kind of you to explain what facts or figures noted here have been made up, for what reason you believe them to be made up, and provide us with figures YOU believe to be true, along with where YOUR figures came from ? The Assistant City Manager wasnt much help when HE was asked some of these questions, he bacame almost speechless, so we are really glad that you are here to enlighten us.