further comments

Dont get me wrong. I like the Rhodes Bros personally and enjoyed going to the CC during that time. As performers and personalities they were, and are, excellent. However, as managers and the main attraction for customers, the numbers suggest something considerably less-than-excellent. We just couldnt afford them. They should have been given a minimal contract with a percentage of the receipts that would have kept growing as the business grew. That would have given them incentives to keep striving to make it work and protected the residents investment at the same time by NOT putting us in such a deep hole to start with.
Their base pay was too high at the start and even tho it was subsequently reduced, it was too late by then and too much up front for a new business just starting out. A moderate contract with lots of incentives would have worked out better for them and the City. One of the Rhodes Bros once said that HIS NAME alone was worth 80 grand. If that was actually the case it would have been reflected in the numbers. Again, it was NOT necessarily the Rhodes Bros fault as much as it was another example of poor City management.
There is plenty of blame to spread around if one wants to go there but maybe more importantly, what have we learned from that experience? What will we do DIFFERENTLY, and better, once the Santana contract is done?