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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the sense that RMSC at Rockville has a large number of kids from the county.  I was at Division A swim meets this summer and the question came up "Is she in RMSC", quite often.  Well, no she isn't, but she is faster than your kids.  I know for a fact several parents form Potomac were able to get their kids into Rockville RMSC with "Private Tryouts", meanwhile hundreds of kids are denied access each summer.  "Private tryouts" as well as unsafe practices at tryouts were reported, and they "changed their methods", however it is suspicious that they didn't think that this was inappropriate in the first place.

Is there any way to confirm how frequent this is?  I feel like the basic mechanism is that parents from communities such as Potomac are more willing to pay the expensive private lessons.  RSFC seems to encourage this to subsidize the pool and swim team.  But what good is your city pool if you don't even get to swim in it?

I contacted Rockville City Council and Mayer communications, who didn't seem to have any logical problems with there being excess demand (considering Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center is closing), and "needing" to have non-residents to subsidize the program.
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"Thank you for your feedback on the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center. All members of Mayor and Council and key staff in Recreation and Parks have received your message. The facility is indeed very popular with a mix of City of Rockville residents and nonresidents alike. Staff have provided the information below in response to your message.

Tax funding provides support for city services overall, with a portion going to support the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center. [b]User fee revenues account for the remaining support needed to operate the center. Registrations and associated revenues received by nonresidents make it possible for the large facility to operate in a cost effective manner.[/b] If participation were limited to City of Rockville residents, the per-user fee for many programs and memberships would well exceed the market rate for comparable services and would in turn make them inaccessible to many members of the community. This approach to combined resident and nonresident participation is used across all Recreation and Parks programs and facilities. Rockville residents do receive a discount on facility memberships and admissions and are eligible for financial aid scholarships if income qualified. [b]Knowing that the facility is quite popular and can become crowded at times[/b], "
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[b]The other thing that doesn't make sense is how can they claim that a subsidized pool would exceed market rate if they didn't have non-residents.  Is there fraud going on here?  It doesn't add up.  Are non-residents paying more than market rate to subsidize residents?  I highly doubt that[/b].[/quote]

Revenue = number of people paying x price of admission/membership

If you don't allow nonresidents you have fewer people paying and therefore less revenue[/quote]

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