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More in here than just eliminating the sports program. All the excess allowances and spending partially brought to light. Real comment also.
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As an active voter, I believe the "funded" sports program "hotel accommodations and tuition waivers" at IVCC should be eliminated prior to cutting the basic education programs that should be available to all students. This is a junior college level facility with very tight budgets. We can't make everyone happy. If an athlete potentially has a future in sports, I would assume that he or she would seek out larger universities that can grant his desire to be a big pro player someday, just not on my tax dollar. I have been affiliated with one of the programs for a few years and I can say that the many of those "free tuition" kids did not deserve to be in our sports program. Some were actually kicked out of other schools, but IVCC took them in. Half of them didn't attend class. It was an absolute joke. Funding kids from Australia in this program on my dollar? I didn't like it.
To read that a facility such as IVCC is continuously evaluating their expenditures for athletics is a reassuring sign of making sure their will be finances for the future. Peru has a Recreation Committee which receives $75,000 from the city per year and wants to build another diamond for $100,000. They should go to a Board meeting of IVCC Directors and show them how to come up with some money and how to spend it. Along the way they should also speak to employees of Jewel and KMart to see how interested they are in expenditures by Peru for a traveling team diamond.
3 comments:
As an active voter, I believe the "funded" sports program "hotel accommodations and tuition waivers" at IVCC should be eliminated prior to cutting the basic education programs that should be available to all students. This is a junior college level facility with very tight budgets. We can't make everyone happy. If an athlete potentially has a future in sports, I would assume that he or she would seek out larger universities that can grant his desire to be a big pro player someday, just not on my tax dollar. I have been affiliated with one of the programs for a few years and I can say that the many of those "free tuition" kids did not deserve to be in our sports program. Some were actually kicked out of other schools, but IVCC took them in. Half of them didn't attend class. It was an absolute joke. Funding kids from Australia in this program on my dollar? I didn't like it.
To read that a facility such as IVCC is continuously evaluating their expenditures for athletics is a reassuring sign of making sure their will be finances for the future. Peru has a Recreation Committee which receives $75,000 from the city per year and wants to build another diamond for $100,000. They should go to a Board meeting of IVCC Directors and show them how to come up with some money and how to spend it. Along the way they should also speak to employees of Jewel and KMart to see how interested they are in expenditures by Peru for a traveling team diamond.
A little off the subject, but why doesn't the city get the eyesore west of burger king, broken fences junk, and just a mess.
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