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 County Recreation funds questioned web posted November 25, 2008 EDGEFIELD – During the County Recreation Football Board meeting Monday night the issue of money and the millage rate for recreation was brought up and the board was asked to account for the expenditures of the recreation program and how the tax money was being used when, according to Recreation Director Nick Wates, the football program made money this year. Mr. Wates countered that the actual money brought in by the millage rate was shy of $190,000 and other revenues accounted for the rest of the money used to run the program. The actual total recreation budget was approved at $292,655 and of that $211,155 was estimated to come from the millage rate and $5,000 was brought forward from last year’s budget for a total of $216,155. The funds generated by the football program were, according to Mr. Wates: Registration and gate fees: $26,506 Sponsorships: $3,776 Total revenues: $30,282 This total is expected to increase as gate revenues from last week’s game have not been calculated yet, Mr. Wates said, and would account for almost half of the fees collected for all sports including baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, and cheerleading by the county budget. Expenditures were: Recreation supplies: $6,018 Referee costs: $5,630 Event Security $2,466 (off duty deputies) Uniforms: $9,536 Insurance: $3,197 Equipment: $2,170 Total expenses: $29,018 Profit: $1,263 Never mentioned were the proceeds from concessions or where those funds went since they were not listed as revenue by the department though available to those attending the games that spent $26,000 just entering the gates. Total concessions, by the budget, show only $1,000 in revenues for the entire year. According to the Edgefield County Recreation Budget the football program costs are $42,450 though contained in that is $15,000 for uniforms when the actual costs were just under $10,000. However, the revenues and expenses presented at the meeting did not include $7,750 for “Maintenance and Service Contracts”, $200 for “advertising” (EdgefieldDaily.com does not charge the county for advertising recreation information), $10,000 for “Machines and Equipment”, or $5,000 for “Recreation Supplies” which show an additional $22,950 expended on the program. These totals do not include the cost of two employees, Mr. Wates and a “maintenance supervisor”, which for the football program term would break down to around $14,470. Mr. Wates said the money from the millage rate went to pay for his salary and the County Maintenance worker to provide the upkeep on the Bettis Park fields and provide lighting. However the salaries for Mr. Wates shows a total compensation package of $46,880 paid on his behalf by the county not counting $3,500 in “automotive expenses” in addition to the $31,850 for the second employee. Adding in the group insurance adds another $4,500 for a grand total of $86,820 in benefits for the two paid employees. Lighting at the park annually is budgeted at $8,000. Unanswered is why the county is paying in excess of $30,000 for a maintenance worker to provide the upkeep on the Bettis Park fields when in the past the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office provided labor for that task for free through the trustee program that also provides for litter pick-up and cutting grass and maintaining county property. Recreation Director Nick Wates assured EdgefieldDaily.com that he would provide a full accounting of expenses for recreation to be published. Edgefield County Recreation Budgets Revenues Expenses Complete County budget ©
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