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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county should at least calculate the cost of the program (including things like utilities and maintenance for the facility, but not building it as that is more akin to turf fields at this point) and ask the families if they can lay the higher fees. The slash and burn budgeting is going to bite them, and they better not tear down or otherwise use a facility purpose-built for gymnastics for storage or just close it. That would be a waste of already-spent money![/quote]
The county also needs to hold itself accountable for fully staffing and utilizing the space if the expectation is to recover fees.  Private gyms do things like host birthday parties for a fee to bring in revenues.  If the county doesn't have qualified coaches for more classes, they need to do things to fill the facility that don't require highly qualified coaches (e.g., 4 yo birthday parties that can be led by someone who is good with kids, but not a gymnastics coach).[/quote]

The County is supposed to turn into a birthday party provider to subsidize kids doing gymnastics?  Whut.[/quote]
The overhead is the gymnastics management, which has to get paid whether they're running 150 classes a quarter or 100 classes a quarter.

You can either run the program like a sleepy county program focused on low costs to make the program available to all and have it be subsidized, or you can run it like a business so it covers its costs.  Both are viable models given demand.  But you can't run it like a county project and then fault it for not covering its own costs.[/quote]

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