And we all know people who will just play another local course.
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Golf anyone?
- Thread starter tornado
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And we all know people who will just play another local course.
tornado
New member
sure, some will, but not all 100% of those who used to play Donovan - that's all I am saying...
when they close Donovan - they will cut costs but they will also lose revenue...
their accounting seems to be proposing all they lose are the expenses.
I have a QUESTION - how many times a year do you use any service or facility form the Peoria Park District...?
then when you do - like play golf, visit the zoo, or sign up for soccer or frisbee golf leagues - don't you also pay a fee...
yet the PPD also is swimming in revenue they get from property taxes....
Then I guess my question is - for the $45 million yearly revenue they have - how is it they cannot run a park district this size?
Rockford, Bloomington, etc...all get it done for less....I guess if I were a property tax payer in Peoria, I'd go over the accounting well and ask why they're so broke on a nearly $50 million income?
when they close Donovan - they will cut costs but they will also lose revenue...
their accounting seems to be proposing all they lose are the expenses.
I have a QUESTION - how many times a year do you use any service or facility form the Peoria Park District...?
then when you do - like play golf, visit the zoo, or sign up for soccer or frisbee golf leagues - don't you also pay a fee...
yet the PPD also is swimming in revenue they get from property taxes....
Then I guess my question is - for the $45 million yearly revenue they have - how is it they cannot run a park district this size?
Rockford, Bloomington, etc...all get it done for less....I guess if I were a property tax payer in Peoria, I'd go over the accounting well and ask why they're so broke on a nearly $50 million income?
bigjimmy
Well-known member
Anyway you look at it it's just a sad day for Peoria golf. But what's even sadder is that Bonnie Noble and the Park Board knew what was happening and did absolutely nothing about it. The golf issues goes back a lot of years with too many missteps to mention. From poor management decisions, to hiring greenskeepers who had no clue how to maintain a golf course, to redoing Kellogg when everyone including the U.S.G.A. told them Newman was the course that needed to be redone, are just a few of the bad mistakes and choices that were made. They claim that they will be saving money by closing Donovan but they will still have to maintain it as a golf course if they plan to shut Newman down in 2016. Typical Park District logic.