I am amazed to read the paper and see some strange things being printed from official sources but they just don't add up and so make sense at all.
TCAL's CEO says that the Hot Pools will loose $160,000 a month while closed, it's also said 10,000 – 15,000 people go a month (average 12,500). Comparing this the average is $12.80 per person, that average is not right! If you allow for concessions and discounts that's to high. A reasonable average of $5/head for 12,500 people gives $62,500/month of lost income, or if $160,000 is right then 32,000 people were paying to go each month.
The funny thing is that for 12,500/month of paying customers means that 26 people every hour enter 16 hours a day, 7 days a week?, that's got to be wrong also. If 32,000 then that's 67 per hour, none of this is believable!
One explanation here is that TCAL gets a lot of money from TCC each year because everything looses money, perhaps TCAL calls that 'income” when it is ratepayers hard earned money that is keeping TCAL solvent and that is all.
There needs to be a 'REAL” and 'FULL” publication of everything about TCAL, this monstrous beast is gobbling huge amounts of rates every year (around $9m + repairs and more), the reports from management fall well short of believable.
Tracy Barnes, Tauranga.