Dog swim 2010 was not a very expensive project.
No more than $250 was spent by the Putnam County Parks and Recreation Department to maintain and operate Waves of Fun for the September 6th, Labor Day fundraiser.
Halburn goes through all sorts of contortions trying to prove that it cost an exorbitant amount of money to hold this event. And as usual, he lies to his shrinking readership.
He does this by including the week before in his costs. The pool closed for the season on August 29.
First of all you can't determine a day's cost by of electricity by dividing the total of the bill by 30 days. You can get an average cost, but not the true usage cost. Costs are based on peak and non peak hours. Nights, Saturday and Sundays are non peak times.
Weekends cost less than weekdays.
There is also the basic cost of operating the facility. Even during the winter when it's closed, it uses approximately 4000 kwh a month in electricity.
Using Hallburn's suspect math for utilities & chemicals, + Scott Williamson's personnel numbers it looks like the cost for the swim was somewhere around $211.25.
Electricity $93.75
Chemicals $37.50
Personnel $80.00
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Total $211.25
The pool was closed for the preceding 7 days. The water wasn't treated or filtered. Since the pumps weren't on there wasn't any wear and tear on them that week so that cost is zero.
The days the pool was closed is immaterial to the cost of the fundraiser. The day of the swim the water was treated then the next day the pool was drained.
Halburn just doesn't get it. He whines every year about the pools closing before labor day. He just can't seem to get it through his thick skull that you can't open a pool if you have no lifeguards.
The kids are back in school so there's no one to go to the pools anyway.
He thinks the pools should stay open just to serve him.
Should a pool stay open an extra week just to serve a handful of patrons?
We say no.
Would he be willing to pay an admission fee based on the number of swimmers that use the pool that week? We don't think so.
$211.25.
Not a big price to pay such for a good cause.
Karen Haynes, organizer of the Dog Swim, reported that the event raised exactly 1884.58 dollars this year.
Hallburn complains that the county doesn't do enough to fund the construction of a new animal shelter, but when they do he complains about that too. He is the worst type of hypocrite.
Halburn will do or say anything to put his political enemies in the worst light.
His petty personal vendettas are not news. He is not a journalist and his opinion blog is not a media outlet.
I am sure the circulating pumps ran, so add another $15 to that total... I am sure he'll scream he told us so!!!
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to doubt he has a college degree, since he thinks college kids would forgo the first week of classes to continue in a minimum wage job lifeguarding at a pool with him as the only patron (since public schools are in session then as well). Had he actually gotten a degree, he'd know that the first week is the most important, next to finals week...
I guess his superior and extensive education in California didn't include math...
ReplyDeleteIt's like an old saying, "figures lie, and liars figure". No one will accept facts or proof if they do not want to accept them. It's called tunnel vision or the "teflon syndrome". Basically nothing sticks, and nothing gets through the thick non-stick coating. Just like the FOIA laws, some people just don't understand what the law actually says. Read all the law, not just the parts you want base rants and raves on. Again, the profit for the animal shelter construction certainly outweighed costs at the pool for dogs to swim.............what's the problem? Or is it a problem for just one person?
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