Is MoCo taking advantage of Rockville's pool

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Anonymous wrote:Where does all of the money go that the swimmers pay? With what people eat being in the news so much these days. I hear there is a new section at the grocery, where the beef used to be, cat and dog. I wonder though do coaches eat pools. Why don't swim teams go and build their own pools. It doesn't make any sense. Take a family membership at a public pool it's around a third to a fourth of the cost of a single swimmer's fees. Open swim isn't very efficient you only get like three or four people per lane, often times less. Swim teams you get six to ten. I get it 2K times six lanes and six swimmers is only like 72K per year for salaries, not to mention meets and what not. Coaches don't make all that much, but the point is there doesn't appear to be all that much left over for pool maintenance much less building a pool. These are just spit-ball numbers, but I can't help but think there might be more pools or lane space if there were fewer professional swim coaches. Maybe part-time coaches or parent coaches, you know all the ones that swam in high school and college that are just sitting there waiting for their kids to get out.

The coaches for the Rays make a hair over minimum wage. The hourly wages are not taking up much of the funding.

It does add up though add in travel expenses and meet expenses. The only difference between the kids swimming in the member lanes and the ones swimming in the teams' lanes are the teams' lanes are paying way more. I'm pretty sure it isn't going towards pool funding.

Nope, those are paid through user fees. In this scenario the swimmers have a chunk of their fees applied to meets. And the swimmers that travel are charged more to pay the coaches travel fees.

It does add up though: 653,790 for regular employees.

There is at least one swim coach on the roll for 82k per year, several others as temporary. I can add up to over 100K in 2023 amongst two or three coaches, which would be ~16% of swim team dues.

https://govsalaries.com/salaries/MD/city-of-rockville

Most coaches are paid less than $20/hour.

I said it wasn't particularly well paid. Just that it adds quite some overhead to the use of the pool. It doesn't make sense to me. All those crowded lanes. They don't even generate that much revenue for the pool. RSFC they use about half the pools most days, but general admissions, memberships and programming bring in way more revenue.

Not if the coaches are paid from fees collected from swimmers.

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Why doesn't RMSC go and build their own pool:

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/facilities/aquatics/article/15141153/against-all-odds-some-swim-clubs-manage-to-build-dedicated-pools

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't RMSC go and build their own pool:

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/facilities/aquatics/article/15141153/against-all-odds-some-swim-clubs-manage-to-build-dedicated-pools

🙄 Because that would pretty much end the affordability of its program and its ability to accommodate the number of swimmers it currently has.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't RMSC go and build their own pool:

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/facilities/aquatics/article/15141153/against-all-odds-some-swim-clubs-manage-to-build-dedicated-pools

🙄 Because that would pretty much end the affordability of its program and its ability to accommodate the number of swimmers it currently has.

You can't rationalize building a pool, and I can't rationalize subsidizing tech suits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't RMSC go and build their own pool:

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/facilities/aquatics/article/15141153/against-all-odds-some-swim-clubs-manage-to-build-dedicated-pools

🙄 Because that would pretty much end the affordability of its program and its ability to accommodate the number of swimmers it currently has.

You can't rationalize building a pool, and I can't rationalize subsidizing tech suits.

Ok, we'll keep the status quo, then.

[Anonymous]

Many of the costs of the Rockville Municipal Swim Center, like maintaining the facility, staffing the facility etc would exist whether RMSC is using the pool or not. What would change is there would be no guarantee over usage volumes and revenue. The Rays bring in a consistent number of swimmers to each group and are a revenue positive operation. If it was just lap swim all the time I think the government subsidy to the swim center would be far larger.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the costs of the Rockville Municipal Swim Center, like maintaining the facility, staffing the facility etc would exist whether RMSC is using the pool or not. What would change is there would be no guarantee over usage volumes and revenue. The Rays bring in a consistent number of swimmers to each group and are a revenue positive operation. If it was just lap swim all the time I think the government subsidy to the swim center would be far larger.

People keep saying that we need all of MoCo to run RSFC, but I haven't seen any evidence of the assertion. I inquired as to how many of the swim team were actually from Rockville and no data were provided.