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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP what you are demanding is the county work harder to subsidize your competitive gymnastics team.   I mean cmon.  I don’t want them spending their time doing that as a taxpayer.

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DPR's time is compensated by the fees they earn from rec classes. If they aren't doing their job and they keep cutting offerings year over year, then revenue keeps dropping year over year, resulting in cuts year over year. This year it's gymnastics. Next year it could be swim or senior programs or teen programs.  It's a downward spiral. There's no reason the gymnastics program can't be self-supporting and offer gymnastics to a wide range of kids and adults in Arlington.[/quote]

Watch the presentation.

They look at programs in terms of community benefit vs individual benefit etc.  No one said DPR is fully recovering it's costs to run their dept through fees.  [/quote]
I watched the presentation and you can hear the county manager explain the year-over-year cuts stating that they have to go deeper every year.  And the more you cut the less revenue you have so the more you have to cut the next year.[/quote]

This is not what he said.  At all.

The County overall has had to take cuts for many years at this point due to expense increases outpacing revenue increases.  DPR has already taken many cuts to services in past years.  So the “easier” ones have already been taken.  That is what he said.

The part you’re saying about the more you cut the less revenue you have so you have to cut more the next year is made up.  And doesn’t even make sense.  They are not cutting programs that are bringing in more money than they cost.  [/quote]

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