West Warwick Town Council 2017 Town Council Meetings, 6 Jun 2017

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From YouTube: Jun. 6, 2017 FY18 Civic Center Public Hearing

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Who's better than you meeting call to honor today is tuesday june 6th. It is now 7, 13 p.m. uh For the fiscal 18 public hearing for the civic center.

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Councilman lichardi here councilman mess here.

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He's upstairs will be down in one minute.

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Councilman padula here.

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Vice president d'amico yeah council, president gosling here there's a quorum lori.

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Dave you're on stage.

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What time is it.

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Come I got to go on outlook and not.

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All right, but it don't have to be that way on, because that's why fred when he was here, took it out of outlook and I got my emails now, I'm getting my personal emails, but I'm not getting my town emails.

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Nothing changed.

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Okay dave, but I got that paper.

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Evidence evidence exactly the same as was presented. I mean uh we didn't make any changes. I don't know if you guys did, but here we are again for the second hearing, so yeah.

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Just to make it clear, we had one hearing already just to go over the expenses and the revenues of the civic center uh proposed budget 585 000 revenues, 585 000, um just to go over some things: real, quick for the newer council members um going back to 2006 to 2010 before the town privatized it and leased it out. um The civic center was notoriously always in the red uh 200 to 400 to 500 000 some years.

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So that's when we privatized it leased it out and we were getting about a hundred thousand dollars a year in revenue. uh The town ended up taking the building back over. uh It was almost two years now.

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um The first year we put a lot of money into it, a couple hundred thousand dollars in upkeep new zamboni um and whatever else up there, some new electrical new lighting. uh So one thing the council has always said is we didn't want to be uh in the red up there? We always wanted to at least be even in the black. This is the first full year of operation.

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um We honestly think we'll be in the black within two years. So that's my opinion. We're.

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Any questions I I won just to clarify: we have a marketing manager there, who's, making less than a secretary.

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um The marketing manager is a base, salary plus commission. So that's the base. Salary plus commission.

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So when we, when we advertised that position, we wanted that to be, we didn't want to give it a lucrative amount and then the person not doing anything per se or not really advertised. So it's in laurie's best interest to advertise, get it rented and do so.

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So assistant, director and civic center supervisor, one of them.

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Two things assistant director is uh part of freddie's salary because he assists up there and the supervisor is dougie.

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So we got a supervisor for two employees.

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Well, there's he's actually he's actually a working.

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Supervisor he's also the zamboni operator and takes care of the ice rink and all of us really.

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Then we've got.

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So he's ice rings, one basically all right.

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And then you've got you've got actually about 10 11 employees here handling with part time in yeah full-time, so basically just secretary civic center maintenance, part-time city center maintenance, part-time zamboni operator, part-time zamboni operator, part-time concession stand times four and what's the uh various tbb to be determined. What's that.

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It's just uh some extra help if we need it, 15.

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000 in overtime.

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And you got to remember the these employees now that it's being rented um I'll use the circus for an example. Those were you can't expect somebody to be working from 7am till midnight, so you need part-timers to fill in those loop, those holes and uh but.

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What people, what we don't see here is when you get someone like that, a private entity coming in renting it they're paying for that part-time concession stand operator, they're paying for that zamboni opera or what whatever it is uh extra help so really we're not paying fifteen thousand dollars in overtime. That's coming from our.

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Revenue, well, you got the revenue side, you have the expense exactly.

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So, in other words, if it costs us three thousand dollars that night for help and we rent it for seven, so we're getting 10.

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Okay, so does every does every rental every rental is in the black that covers the staff that come in correct.

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Any other questions, any public comment.

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Hearing none no motion to address.

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Second, all in favor, aye.

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We're going right into the council meeting.