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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also the private gyms train their competitive teens to teach their rec classes. We dont do this and when the competitive kids apply they aren't called back! [/quote]

Private gyms can do this because they also have regular staff there all the time to oversee teen coaches and to do administrative and other duties so the teens are literally just coaching kids. Student-coaches have to work a very specific schedule since obviously they go to school full time and have their own training -- they might coach one or two classes a week, they aren't covering 20 classes over 5 days. It's a logistical nightmare setting something like that up and if the competitive team wanted to do that, they'd need to do ALL the legwork. You an't expect someone from DPR to vet a bunch of teenagers, figure out their bespoke schedules working around school and their own practices and meets, and ensuring that you also have the right adults there so that some 15 year old isn't running the whole gym themselves on a Tuesday night because that's not appropriate.

There are lots of things private gyms can do that it is not reasonable to expect DPR to do. [/quote]

Except we have a competitive teams manager and a recreational manager who already have the job that is designed to manage this (and they don't currently coach they just manage full time).

But yes if for someone those folks can't do the very thing their job requires, then sure we can do it (with the coaches support, which we have as they suggested this model and how to run it).

I am a little frustrated that folks seem to think we dont want to put  in the work..

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Why hasn't the work been put in! I see a lot of people blaming the county for failing to hire coaches. If the teams manager and the rec manager were aware of the staffing problem, which has been going on for years, and aware of the limited rec offerings, which has been going on for years, why where these FULL TIME EMPLOYEES not working on these issue. The program has just been canceling rec classes for years due to short staffing and the attitude is "why didn't DPR hire more coaches for us" or "why didn't DPR tell us this was a problem"? Take some accountability. The program was being poorly run, clearly.

I think you also need to understand that from the perspective of tax payers, it doesn't matter whose fault it is that the program is in the hole. It could be DPR's fault, it could be the program's own mismanagement. It's likely a combination of both. If you are a county tax payer who cares about the budget and are not invested in a county gymnastics program (which is most tax payers), all that matters is fixing the error. DPR is proposing cutting the program. That fixes the problem. if the program wants to fix itself, you need an explanation for why more was not done to address these obvious issues sooner. Did the program management really not understand that the program has been bleeding hundreds of thousands of dollars for years? And if they did know, did they really not see the urgency in needing to address that issue? I don't get it, I really don't.

It sounds like the program got complacent and figured the county would continue to cover their big shortage forever, and made no effort to address it. That really bugs me.[/quote]

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