Time to build a second Midland Horseshoe complex
At least that is what I get from this article.
In its first year of operations in 2006, the venue hosted 70 events totaling 126 days. While in 2007, that number grew to 99 events totaling 157 days.With its first two years of operations, it is estimated the venue has contributed more than $10 million in economic impact with more than 223,000 people in attendance.
But just to make sure we will hire some consultants to estimate the economic impact anyway.
The county also hired a third-party firm to conduct a study on the venue's economic impact. However, County Judge Mike Bradford said it won't be ready for a few weeks.
But we don't need to wait for the study we are going to go ahead and pay for to affirm our opinion that the facility is operating and having the impact as originally planned.
However, members of the Commissioners' Court still contend the venue has served its intended purpose: Giving the community a multi-purpose facility to hold events."I think the small operations lost we have encountered is a fair swap for the economic impact the facility brings," [Midland County Judge Mike] Bradford said.
But wait! In the first two years of operations we have turned down almost as many events as we have accommodated!
Since operations began at the venue, 122 events were lost due to dates already being booked, the report states.
So if the estimated economic impact of the events that have been held at the Horseshoe above is a given and the number of events we must turn down due to the venue already being booked is roughly 70% of the number we actually book and this number will necessarily rise because we cannot expand the calendar year...then it all becomes obvious:
We need to build a second Midland Horseshoe.
Because we have lost out on $7,000,000 million in economic impact and we just can't afford that!
Which reminds me.....isn't it about time for another Monthly Financial Report?
UPDATE: The County Auditor has now posted the County Financial Statements for May and June....but without the pages showing the performance of the Midland Horseshoe in those months. So what are the chances we will ever see those figures broken out of the main report again?
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It's a real head-scratcher alright.
They actually posted those report in response to your post Walsingham. Bravo.
Every time I read something about the county and/or city elected people, I read that they have commissioned a study of something...now I see a committee has been established to study the study...
See the MRT today re: the jail, and the Horseshoe.
Who is making decisions these days? And on what bases? Reviews of reviews?
Nobody makes any decisions that might get them sued or removed from office. If you commission a study and act based on the results of the study, you are not deemed to be responsible for your actions should the study be complete BS - it becomes the study's fault (which was conducted by some faceless organization that does not even contain local residents, probably). It's the same problem that plagues our health care system - every doctor is a specialist and none takes responsibility for the whole individual. Therefore when something goes awry, there is always someone else who could be at fault and no one individual is responsible for anything, including their own actions.
Doctors, politicians, lawyers, insurance, liberals, ad nauseaum - oh, if I only had the time...
You get more results-Friday MRT.
I see the County didn't publish the Horseshoe "break-out" sheet for the months of May and June. I wonder why?