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The RNGC Caddyshackpocalypse
Bollards!
The Board has not decided to move forward with the referendum and there is no 2011 funding for one. Reston Association would like to emphasize that the Board is conducting research, doing its due diligence and gathering information. Speculative details and enthusiastic possibilities are part of the conversation and that process. Should the Board decide to move ahead, community involvement, meetings, comments and engagement would be the top priorities. Therefore, all funding options would be considered at the appropriate time.Those crazy bloggers! The reason the RA is looking for "speculative details and enthusiastic possibilities," whatever those are, is because preliminary plans call for RA to borrow the full cost of the facility. According to staff proposals, the tennis facility could turn a profit in two years, according to North Point Director Mike Collins.
The estimates included many assumptions that need to be vigorously tested, but they seemed encouraging. Personally, I'd like to explore many financing options, such as donations (large and small), sponsorships, public-private partnerships, etc..Is it too soon to suggest putting the juicery back into the plans?
Indoor tennis? Who cares about that? How about an indoor center like the Claude Moore rec center in Sterling. We need indoor pools, water slides, rock climbing, a gym, arcade room etc. That would get more use than some indoor tennis court for yuppies!
ReplyDeleteI second anon 12:19! Enough with the indoor tennis already.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the break down of users is across the various amenities and then I wonder if we spend based on that? It wouldn't seem like there were more users of tennis vs. pools or the path systems. Shouldn't spending be based on use?
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could get some Stimulus scratch for this AND a regulation sized roller rink. That is, of course, assuming that those the Red Horde invading the House hasn't already put the cabash on that notion.
ReplyDeleteBring Roller Derby to Reston!
i hope i can get off work at 2 to get a court
ReplyDeletebut that is the beauty of indoor tennis courts, you don't have to fight for court time only when the weather is good. It will open up playing times for everyone, not just those hardy outdoor types. They will be very popular and not just for Reston locals either. Of course that may make it hard to a court. Maybe you will need to get off work at 1:30.
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ReplyDeleteAm I missing the joke, or do you not pay attention? That was tried and shouted down, the NIMBY's won that battle. See Brown's Chapel Wrecked Center.
8:51
ReplyDeleteTennis is a very different deal from Wrecked Center.
$4 million borrowed by 62,000 Restonians in order for 3720 of the richest Restonians to play for the 12 weeks that it's a little too nippy outside, some years, and so that 5 part time RA employees (tennis instructors) can have year round employment. Yeah, that makes total sense.
NOT
1:52-
ReplyDeleteThe 8:51 comment was directed to the first two posts who were advocating for an indoor rec center. You are using the same sensational, half truth hysteria that was used by the SBC folks in your post against indoor tennis. Not much of a different deal there.
Except that some of us really want those things and would be willing to pay for them. There are more of us that feel this way than you think.
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ReplyDeletelets hope it is a much different deal. Lets hope this RA board does not use the same sort of dim witted, lemming behavior that led to them spending a hundred thousand or so of RA members money on concept plans and marketing studies before the members were involved. Sensational, half truth hysteria? Call it outrage that one or two over blown egos could needlessly waste so much money and try to give away Reston land and build a county rec center on a beautiful park. Not sure how you can compare indoor tennis to the indoor rec center but if you just mean that anyone who doesn't agree to let the board spend first and ask questions later...call me hysterical.
anon 9:13
ReplyDeletethan you should pay for them.
10:07
ReplyDeleteYou're hysterical.
Sorry, 10:09. It's like taxes. You don't get to pick and choose what you tax dollars get spent on. If it gets approved, everybody pays for it and everybody has the same opportunity to enjoy it. Nice try, though.
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ReplyDeletethanks for the verification. I was just asking because I wasn't sure what to call that very crazy state of mind one achieves when dealing with our very own RA.
Anon 4:45- Crazy fits, too.
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