Launceston City Council is attempting to placate ratepayers via social media, facebook in particular. It is good to see the Council embracing social media but it would be more helpful if the administration wasn't trying to be 'SPIN DOCTORS' and attempted to answer the question people are actually asking and really want answers to.
Well make of what you find below and on the Council website and post further question in the comments section.
"Facts on the Launceston Leisure and Aquatic Centre
The Launceston Aquatic and Leisure Centre is proving incredibly popular in Northern Tasmania, attracting 390,419 people last year.
Income at the centre has increased by 67 per cent since 2011-12.
However the Council agrees that the annual operating cost of the facility is higher than we would like.
If you'd like to know more, we've put together this information to give people a clearer understanding of the challenges we face in operating the facility and what we're doing to reduce its operational costs."
WEBSITE LINK: http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/lcc/index.php?c=787
The Council has put together some fast facts
CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO ENLARGE
THE WEBSITE ASKS
"Want to know more?"
We certainly do and let's start with:
- What is the ratepayer subsidy per entrant or the cost of an entry over and above the entry fee?
- What is the total capital expenditure for Launceston Aquatic since 2010-2011?
- What is the total projected capital expenditure for Launceston Aquatic for 2015 -16?
- What is the total depreciation allowance for Launceston Aquatic per year 2010-11 - to 2014-15?
- What is the current staff level for Launceston Aquatic expressed as effective full-time positions?
- What is the cost of external consultancies relative to Launceston Aquatic?
- What is the total income amount generated at Launceston Aquatic over and above entry fees for 2014-15?
- What is the interest cost for the loans required to build the facility and subsequent capital expenditure?
We look forward to the publication of this information and more.
2 comments:
The pool cost $26M to build, what is total amount spent on it since it was built?
What is the total annual cost of the pool and gym covered by council's current budget allocation?
What is the total combined annual staffing cost for the pool and gym?
Launceston City Council claim that Aquatic Centre visitation is 390,419 and to put it into perspective, say it is more than Mona and other sites surveyed in the Tasmanian Visitor Survey.
This is a deliberately misleading perspective that only shows how desperate Launceston City Council is to cover up and confuse the
community about matters concerning the Aquatic Centre. It also shows it is clueless about the Tasmanian Tourism market and the Tasmanian Visitor Survey. Look at the facts.
Tasmanian Visitor Survey. http://www.tourismtasmania.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/36712/MONA-Vis
itor-Profile-YE-June-2015.pdf states:
"Of the 330 700 visitors who indicated that they went to MONA, 65 per cent were on a holiday trip, 19 per cent were visiting friends or
relatives and the remaining 16 per cent indicated they had travelled for business or some other reason."
This shows that 330,700 individual tourists visiting Tasmania visited Mona. By definition they paid either $20 of $25 per head to enter, say a minimum of $6million in revenue. It also does not count the Tasmanians that continue to arrive at Mona in droves.
The Aquatic Centre visitation by by barely a few thousand people visiting many times and paying less per week than for a single Mona
entry.
The whiff from senior management at council is a lot worse than that from Wim Delvoye's Cloaca installation.
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