Saturday, November 5, 2011

Closing Humble Park

Closing the Humble Park Community Center may be a good idea, but I doubt it.   I attended a John Bryan Community center several years ago and there were a lot of good people attending that meeting, from that neighborhood, that were willing to run that center on a voluntary basis.   And except for a mayor and city employees that had a vested interest in keeping paid staff at that center, we may very well have been able to run that center for about 1/10th of what it costs us now.

We pay score keepers at Community Center events? Little League, RASA, Pop Warner Football.   You won’t find paid scorekeepers.   A lot of the entry level sports leagues are run by volunteers.   Some of the higher up activities, like the LightHouse Run use volunteers.

We actually make money on the senior Center up on Gould street.   And that is the Center that has the longest history of attacks for this council to get them to move out so that we can start spending taxpayer money on that Center again to keep it operational

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