Rip Tides Appear Solid

Memo says, "For the upcoming water polo camp we will receive $1350. This is a five-day camp and does not interfere with any other pool activities, including the swim team." Receipt for last years water polo camp was for $2000. whats the difference between this years and last years, except $650? Cost per student is $300 for the whole week. Receipt for 11-7-05 is for $200 for October rental. Receipt for 1-6-06 is for Rip Tide water polo practice and is for $160, ck #1080. Receipt for 5-3-06 is for $600, ck #1122. Next receipt is for $800, on 8-17-06, ck # 1178. the last receipt is for $500, written 11-28-06, ck # 1211. It seems the Rip Tides actually pay $200 a month in pool rentals. This is a group of 20 guys, right? and a nonprofit? arent the nonprofits supposed to pay LESS than for-profits? especially less than those with MANY more swimmers? There is good documentation of pool rentals paid regularly, for this year at least. Rip Tides do not appear to be the problem. There is NO apparent payments to this point in the review for either Columbus or Reagan HS's for the past two years, nor the supposed $500 pool rentals for October or November, 2008. Wet Dolfins paid $375 1-16-07 for 25 hours of one lane rental, ck #1133.

pool musings

Resident went to fgcswim website. Info is in different format and requires some additional software to open files, apparently. All of that info would be good to know tonight so that it would at least reflect what IS being claimed for each swim meet. The program is Team Manager. If anyone has it and can open those files and present the information here, it would be very helpful. It also says that format is compatible with Adobe pdf files. After having a pool for FORTY YEARS it is incomprehensible to NOT have accurate revenue controls in place! It is either incredible incompetency OR deliberate skimming of admission fees. Neither is acceptable, and skimming is illegal (fraud? grand theft?). How long ago did the MDAC official make a payment to the pool? Who did he pay? Cash? Check? What was it for? Practice? Meets? Does anybody know how much the check was for? Was it documented in the receipt book? Who would know? Did anybody witness the payment? The receipt book sounds interesting. While they may try to BS Mr Dotson, he has been an accountant for over thirty years, and knows when the numbers dont make sense. It seems that arrogance, secrecy, and intimidation are the hallmarks of this administration, if not corruption. This has gone on too long. Change is needed. NOW. Start with a pool audit by an outside, independent auditor. Then move on to the golf course and the construction projects.

curiosities

The most recent information DOES sound pretty unbelievable! Are they saying that the $ 2 per swimmer was paid in cash? If so, there will be receipts, deposit slips, and bank statements reflecting that, right? The receipts on the daily logs sepearte cash from checks, and give the check numbers, so they shouldnt be hard to trace, right? Sometimes, if you give people just enough rope, they will hang themselves. Mr Dotson is an accountant and will get to the bottom of these numbers. It IS interesting how, as was stated before, two days ago none of these numbers were available, and POW! now they have just jumped up and got a life of their own! Monday night will be an exercise in creative and imaginative accounting. Fortunately Mr Dotson has 25+ years of experience and knows when the numbers dont make sense! He is the right person at the right time for this job! Of course all data needed and requested should go back at least three years, right? Lets see if there are any "adjustments" made to those numbers too. It just gets curiouser and curiouser. It would be hard to "adjust" receipts, bank statements, and deposit slips THAT far back, wouldnt it? All of these questions and altered numbers will form the basis and foundation for a request from Mr. Dotson to have an independent, outside forensic audit to put everyone concerns to rest, no? Lets see who will agree with Mr Dotson THIS time! Lets also be sure to get ALL of this on video so the people at home can decide for themselves! Monday night football- you go to Tivo- THIS will be MUCH more entertaining!

pool audit needed

Missing also from the records presented so far is ANY contract with ANY entity that uses our pool and ANY proof of payment of past debts to us from prior meets and daily practices! If any bills have been presented to MDAC, where ARE they? IF they have been paid, where are the receipts and where is that money reflected ? IF those bills havent been paid, WHY NOT? Also missing are the complete swim team rosters for MDAC for the past couple years. We should be charging EVERYBODY the standard rate - schools, meeets, practices, and private swim teams. There is NO justification of using taxpayer dollars to subsidize a private for-profit enterprise. It also makes NO sense to indulge a handful of Springs swimmers at the expense of 13,000 hard-pressed and struggling residents. The buck stops at the City Manager and his assistant's desk, doesnt it?