PTC to cut 4 jobs at Kedron fieldhouse

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:07am
By: John Munford

One full-time and three part-time positions at the Kedron Fieldhouse and Aquatic Center are on the chopping block at Thursday night’s meeting of the Peachtree City Council.

The proposal includes six weeks of severance pay and medical insurance coverage. The positions that will be eliminated include a full time leisure program coordinator and part time positions of customer service representative, maintenance technician II and maintenance technician III.

Of those positions, only one of the part-time jobs is currently vacant, meaning three employees will be out of a job instead of four, according to city officials.

The staff cuts will reduce expenses by $100,000 a year, according to a staff memo. Already this year the city has axed 27 employees including 24 landscaping/maintenance workers and four members of the city’s building department.

Another proposal on tap Thursday night is the adoption of fees for swim teams that use the facility. The new fees would bring in an additional $22,692 in revenue for the aquatic center above the current $9,000 in fees.

The new fees would be assessed hourly, with $3 per lane per hour for all school teams (14 week season, $7.50 per swimmer per month) and masters teams (10 month seasons, $12 per swimmer per month). The Southern Crescent Aquatic Team will pay $4 per hour (11 month season, $19 per swimmer per month).

The fees are less than the $32 per month per swimmer originally suggested by city staff.

According to city staff, the high school and masters teams have very few out of county swimmers and SCAT has about 10 percent of its swimmers living out of county.

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Submitted by DarkMadam on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:38pm.

How many more people will have to lose their jobs before we get these dim wits out of office. Just as a side note - Scott Rowland is looking really good as a canidate for mayor. Way better than the other 2. No agenda! What a great concept!


Submitted by ohmygosh on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:23am.

Maybe they can get hired on with the Ice Skating Rink

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