President Abell: Under new business, Burdette Park passes for county employees. You’re not here to discuss that, are you? I spoke with Mr. Craig on the phone today about this. He has not ordered those. He’s leaving that decision on whether or not to provide them up to us. Of course, this is where we’re going to make that decision, because the three of us having discussed it. I don’t know how the other two feel, but, we just, I just do not think this something we can continue to afford. We’re operating at bare bones. We’re losing money at Burdette Park every year, and I don’t think we can continue to provide passes for anyone to use the facilities, but I will entertain comments from my fellow Commissioners.
Commissioner Melcher: Well, it’s not just not the county employees. Every time we do the county employees, the next two weeks we’ve got to come back and do the building here. So, they’re not on here again, so that means they’ll be back at the June 4th meeting wanting to know where their passes are. I agree, you know, right now, with the times the way they are and all of this, I was in a meeting with Shetler yesterday, you were on the phone, we’ve got to find out where all of this money is going to come from. You know, we hate to do that, but, you know, nothing says we can relook at this some other time. So, I don’t even think–
Commissioner Kiefer: Don’t do anything.
Commissioner Melcher: – don’t even do anything on it, no. So, we’ll just move on with old business.
President Abell: No action. There will be no action on this, and there will be no park passes issued this year.
This is from the same three clowns that floated the idea of charging admission to Burdette even if that meant fencing up the property and hiring employees to collect the fees.
Okay, so what if county employees receive passes to the pool. What about the concessions they will purchase and friends & family they bring along that will also purchase food & rent floats?
Time for the Queen to be toppled from her throne & the other two jokers find employment other than the government teet.
SMG? Weren’t they recently hired to ‘promote’ Burdette & run concessions? Haven’t seen anything anywhere about Burdette Park.
If the commissioners are so concerned about Burdette running at a deficit then just maybe they should have considered the additional expense of SMG.
Burdette Park is the jewel of the west side that many residents enjoy regularly; it is only a matter of time before SMG prices people out and Burdette goes the way of other parks in Evansville. Sad.
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