Posted by Nick at 11/09/08 07:16AM        Post ID#: #834

The real question is: Should the City governments be in this business at all? Several attempts have been made to establish various aquatic centers nearby but have failed for mainly one reason - availability of financing - and if this were a good potential business idea, financing wouldn't have been a problem. To me, that answers the question that it wouldn't be a good business venture or at least, it would be a high risk one. Many years ago, the City of Spokane built several golf courses. However, the golf courses were such a good investment that the parks department, who were charged with their upkeep, never collected a cent of tax dollars to support all the beautiful Spokane parks because green fees paid for it all. Perhaps the city should get into the golf course business instead, which fits into our tourism goals and would help our struggling parks department and keep it from floundering.

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