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Originally Posted by sunny beach  BTW, I drove by All-4-Fun today at about 3pm and there were no less than 30 people playing mini golf and driving go karts and the parking lot was pretty full. More cars and people there than at the City Pool. Maybe the City should conserve water and money and close the pool to keep All-4-Fun open. |
sunny beach,
I'm glad to hear that so many people are using the facility, however quantity does not mean ALL 4 FUN's is successful. The overhead must be outrageously high. When the City was considering to lease/own this facility, I told a commissioner that the $2,500 a month payment would be the cheap part. Also told him the real expense would be in the operation and maintanance of the facility.
According to the Globe:
"The attraction has incurred 44% of its budgeted expenses but only brought in 26% of the expected revenues half way through the peak attendance year."
It would be interesting to compare money lost at ALL 4 FUN to the pool and library. I can tell you for sure that our public golf course has a yearly deficiet of approx. $180,000. The Civic Center operates with a yearly deficiet of $200,000.
I don't think just because a service is losing money we should can the project. Is a commissioner at some point in time going to say let's build a bowling alley at tax payers expense, or how about a skating rink. At some time (now) we need to draw a line.
I kinda like your idea of closing the pool. (even though it may have been sarcastic) if we're going to lose money, we might as well save water while doing it! LOL!