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 Recreation Director: Concessions money used to “buy things that the county was not responsible for buying” web posted July 20, 2009 COUNTY – Nick Wates, the Edgefield County Recreation Director has offered a deeper insight into the funds created from concession sales at the County owned concession stand at Bettis Park. According to Director Wates the operations of the concession stand was turned over to the Mt. Canaan Baptist Association in 2006. “(Former County Administrator) Wayne (Adams) decided back in ’06 that the county was not making enough money off of concessions once you consider my time and gas, etc to deal with it,” Director Wates said. According to Wates, “We were having a hard time finding people to run them (concessions) so Wayne and I crunched some numbers to see what it would take to hire someone to run them. The county would have lost money to run them that route.” Director Wates stated in his response that the sports leagues, “were asking for money to purchase items that really did not fall under county responsibility according to county ordinance. So after looking at what the county was making off of concessions verses me having to go to Sams and wherever to buy supplies…Wayne decided to turn the concessions back over to the individual leagues to run.” The “bonus”, he said, would be that, “they run them and keep the money so they would have a little money to buy things that the county was not responsible for buying. So at that point the county was out of concessions,” Director Wates said. Mr. Wates stated that revenues received from the operation of the county owned concessions stand at Bettis Park are overseen by Debra Barley of the Mt. Canaan Baptist association and that all funds were deposited into a Mt. Canaan Baptist association account in spite of a County ordinance passed the same year requiring all concession stand revenues be deposited with the County Treasurer. It is unclear how funds intended for deposit to the County were used to purchase items that were not allowed by County ordinance, according to Recreation Director Nick Wates, and that those funds are now being deposited into an account that benefits the Mt. Canaan Baptist Association. One source stated that cheerleaders at the Bettis Park Football league sought to run a bake sale last year to offset the cost of their uniforms and were informed by Edgefield County Council Vice-Chairman Willie Bright that all food products had to be sold from the concessions stand at Bettis Park, not the league or the cheerleaders. According to a preliminary search of county ordinances, nothing has repealed the previous 2006 ordinance instructing all revenues, including concessions, be turned over to the county. The same year, Recreation Director Nick Wates says former County Administrator Wayne Adams turned the concessions over to “the leagues”. Related: Unaccounted concession stand sales at Bettis Park for 2008 could reach beyond $19,000 Opinions: Bettis Park concession stand sales provide more questions that answers Show me the money © Copyright 2009
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