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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$13/class is absolute insanity.  DPR could easily increase that and still meet demand.  Also, I agree about higher fees for out of county residents.[/quote]The same is true of AAC.  If youth sports that don't recover fees were looked at holistically, there's a way to spread this out more fairly.[/quote]

Why should costs for a competitive gymnastics team be spread out more fairly?  What's fair about that?

AAC and competitive gymnastics shouldn't be run out of the County at all.

The role of a parks and rec department is in the title.  Rec.[/quote]

This. Why can't the county JUST run a rec gymnastics program. If there is a coaching shortage, why not have all the coaches teach rec. If there is interest in competitive gymnastics in the county,[b] then people can start a private gym.[/b] It's never been explained why, if there's so much interest in competitive gymnastics, that's not an option.

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Note to readers, when you see this comment know that the writer doesn't really have a suggestion b/c it's not the same as you can just start create a new soccer league.  Read the letter from another local gym owner about what goes into starting a new gym.  The facility alone makes the bar very high and means a long lead time.  There is no need to start a new gym when a perfectly good faclity exists.  While I will concede that turning the left gym back into basketball is apotible path forward, leaving it empty for a year is beyond idiotic and makes me wonder why anyone would think that's a good idea.  [/quote]

The gymnastics gym is already not in use much of the time. The program regularly cancels classes and refunds fees because it can't find instructors. And it's not the only recreational gymnastics program having this issue -- DC also has a gymnastics facility in NE DC that sits empty and unused much of the time because it can't find instructors. They have tried outsourcing instruction to another group and that didn't work either.

If you have a facility getting very low utilization, it sometimes really is cheaper to simply close it than to keep it open at a low utilization rate. Organizations make this sort of decision about offices, warehouses, retail stores, schools, etc., all the time. Yes it always impacts the group of people who are still using the under-utilized facility, and sometimes that's too bad. But it is bad management to maintain facilities that are not being utilized, to benefit a tiny number of people, at the expense of everyone else.[/quote]

What is the appropriate number is people to benefit? So gymnastics alone is around 1200 per session. That doesnt count use of the boxing room, wellness room, gym or hallways used for martial arts instruction..just curious what you think the tipping point is.

And it isnt true that the gym isnt in use much of the time. The DPR numbers weren't accurate when looking at the numbers of kids in rec alone.  But it also didn't take into account wakefield or GWs use of the gym.

But all that being said, there are plenty of other activities that can happen in the gym during non peak times

1) open gym/play space, large use with toddler families

2) they used to do field trips there

3) senior modified gymnastics classes during the day.

4) any number of additional fitness classes that can happen using the floor, equipment or wellness/ dance studio (because they already offer some). How about a 55+ dance class, they already offer them for toddlers there. I mean they offer one yoga class,  why not more ?

They could offer classes like this place

https://www.physicalitydc.com/classes

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