Weren’t we told the MAC would do gang busters because there was such a need? The need has been SO great attendance goes down each year and subsidies go up ($700K a year approx.) If the MAC was at capacity and was being used that much, wouldn’t it at LEAST be breaking even?
Designs for both Frank Olson and Kuehn Park pools included both an indoor and outdoor option, and an indoor pool would also likely mean more indoor recreation like a running track, gymnasium space and multi-purpose rooms.
We don’t need another municipal indoor pool OR rec center. We should encourage Sanford to build a large facility at the Sports Complex and get out of the broken window and broken sidewalk fixing business and money losing adventure the MAC has been.
Did you see where Sanford’s most recent IRS filing showed that it made a 10% profit last year? I’m not too sure how a non-profit can profit, but as long as it has that kind of cash laying around maybe they could, or should, build us a big public pool.
( and Woodstock adds: “Yah, maybe a pool with bumper boats, huh?”… )
I believe the spin is that often businesses for profit do not profit, so why can’t a non profit have a profit?
If you believe that government should be a money-making operation – you might be a corrupt “conservative” politician.
Government wants you in their fishbowls. One is enough. Just buy me a hot tub if you want to get elected.
Why do you think that conservatives are involved in government? Have you ever noticed that in really bad economic times the conservatives seem to give up and let the left do their Keynesian thing, so that the conservatives can then profit off of it? Else, in good times, they steer government to their established profitable motivations and/or interests.