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Any and every Miami Springs taxpayer has a right to know where their tax monies are going- to whom, for what services and when, at what cost, and what the users were charged for those services. There are numbers posted all over the MS website, some of them accurate, but very few details about the pool and how THOSE numbers were derived. Why is that? The City Manager first said there were contracts with the swim teams, but that as quickly changed to "use agreements", and finally he admitted those dont exist either and they are here on a handshake and a "gentlemans agreement". No other dept in the City is run on those "agreements- why the pool? is that any way to run a business? provide a service? get fair market value? avoid, at least, the appearances of impropriety, if not illegality? demonstrate to the residents that their taxes are being well spent providing services to Springs residents? which IS the intent, no? Nobody has responded to the questions asked about the Optimist (lack) of connection- why is THAT? NO factual replies are forthcoming on ANY of the questions raised here- is that because there ARE no replies that make any sense? Like the posted revenues at the pool- pure fiction? creative accounting? Facts and figures have been presented here- disprove them if you can, with YOUR documented facts and verified figures. Lets talk numbers that are believable.

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Where is the $1500 a season that Gym says was collected from Columbus and Reagan HS reflected as income? As of 2007 there was no payments made and administraion knew it. Did they ever bill for those past season payments? Did they ever receive those payments? All we are asking for is an accurate and timely accounting of all revenues taken in and expenses paid out. didnt Gym go on record as saying that there WERE contracts with all the HS and MDAC? Then he said there maybe werent any contracts, but that there were "use agreemants"? At the last Council meeting he admitted there were NO contracts and only use agreements with Jazzercise, and maybe the Pelican Players. Does anybody remember exactly what was said? It is amazing that TWO weeks after Gorland telling Mr Dotson that those numbers werent available and didnt exist, and ONE week after Gym telling the resident that they werent available and didnt exist, they magically appear! does anybody have any information about the pool heating costs for the last three years. Just because numbers were given by city officials does NOT mean they have ANY relationship to reality! Look at the stated pool/Aquatics revenue numbers for the past year- they have NO relationship to any pool reveue figures that were supposedly collected! When the total is $2150 and the Columbus and Reagan HS revenues ALONE should be $3000, you have to wonder about ANY figures they put out, no? Add the supposed monies we were were due for swim practices (another $2400 a year, at least), private pool rentals, the scuba guys, and the supposed $750 a day for meet pool rentals for 3-4 meets and their numbers ARENT EVEN CLOSE! They either have NO clue, are the worst management team in history, are not charging and receiving payments for the pool usage, or are charging and receiving the monies but pocketing it. Maybe the answer is ALL of the above! You decide.