This almost seems like something that dunce Ryan Ward would come up with in his plentiful free time. But no, this is Corbell’s watch now…
You wonder why the City budget grows and grows and your taxes go up and up? Because of retard ideas like this: paying someone $53,000 per year to “plan recreation programs” when parents and other groups have been doing that for free all this time.
Erin is new here, so I’ll give her a small bit of info she probably didn’t know: when a previous City council was debating spending millions on that 580 Sports Complex back around 2010, one of the BIGGEST talking points of the proponents was “we can have tons of softball tournaments out there and make a ton of money” – basically, the EXACT same nonsense she is spewing right now.
That was about 14 years ago, if I’m not mistaken (Erin can go find the council minutes from 2010 and 2011, if she wants to see for herself) yet NONE of that “money-making softball tournaments” pipe dream has happened in that entire span.
I can also tell you another thing: no way in HELL will all the tournaments in the world make more than the $53,000 salary and benefits this new person will cost the city. Simple math.
Say, that reminds me: whatever happened to the big “mountain bike” idea out there at 580 sports complex? The one where “the volunteers will do all the work” and the City blew $12,000 on some plans?
Don’t tell me….lemme guess!