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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not really whether demand is there.  It’s should the county be doing it at all. I don’t really need to pay tax dollars so Larlas can take heavily subsidized gymnastics in prime County space that could be used to serve residents more broadly.  Let alone subsidizing some kind of club gymnastics team.  Who knew that was even a thing.

Private places will fill the gap eventually if the county stops doing it. [/quote]

Barcroft also has baseball facilities. Should we do away with those? What about the many many soccer fields? The $$$ aquatics center and HS pools? Let’s just get rid of all youth programs so your precious tax dollars don’t have to support any of this. 🙄 Clearly we shouldn’t subsidize things you random poster don’t personally use.[/quote]

I don't know the nature of the arrangement but GW paid for the upgrades to the baseball field and it's their home field and then can be used by other when not in use by them.  Did the gymnastics team pay for all the improvements and equpment in the gym?

How many times is this going to come up.  If individual groups want to use any of these spaces -a pool, a field, a gym, they share with others and participate in a process to rent or reserve the field or facility and pay a fee.  The asset is managed by the County and shared by a wide group of people for multiple uses and it is widely available to all.  This is DPR's role.  Manage community assets for our recreational use.  It is not their role to fund and run an elite gymanstics gym with equipment that is only needed and used by competitive gymnasts.  [/quote]
What upgrades? What are you talking about?

The team is always sharing the facility with rec classes.  All the equipment is being used at the same time with groups rotating on a schedule.  The team only gets the gym to themselves at times they don't run rec classes (e.g., holiday weeks or late evenings).  At that point the incremental cost is having the lights on.

There's no separate rental fee because the team is run by the county so parents pay the county directly at the rate set by the county.  They have tighter control by managing the facility directly instead of renting it to a third party.[/quote]

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