Aquatic Center Rates Set
Cost Based On Height
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 5 a.m.
Parks Department employees are wading through hundreds of details as they ready for the opening of the aquatic center in May.
By The Numbers
Admission Rates
Type of admission 48 inches tall or more Below 48 inches Below 36 inches
Nonresident $15 $10 Free
Resident $12 $8 Free
4 p.m.-8 p.m. $10 $6 Free
Seniors 62 and older $8
Non-resident 10-pass card $99 $75
Resident 10-pass card $83 $65
Source: Staff Report
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Are they insane? These prices are nowhere close to reasonable. The cost to take my family for 1 day to the aquatic center that is 6 blocks from my house is the same amount for a full season pass to the Bentonville pool. I know where our money will be spent!
Posted by: adad24
March 7, 2013 at 7:15 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lets see, the taxpayers in the City of Rogers built it and now have the same rates as if it was a private built. Does something stink here?
Posted by: Moneymyst
March 7, 2013 at 7:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Let me get this straight -- they pay for this park using bonds that the citizens are paying for via a sales tax, however they think it's "Fair" to charge three to four times the admission that every other city pool in NWA charges? At no time in the process of asking for the citizens to authorize the bonds to pay for this thing did they mention that it would be only accessible to the wealthier citizens of NWA. I mean, do you really think the average family can drop $40 every time they want to go to the city pool? Of course, concessions will be extra. CHA-CHING!!!!
Posted by: Bubba72704
March 7, 2013 at 9:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
This is NOT a city pool.. it has to be staffed and managed differently, with different costs associated!
Posted by: proud
March 7, 2013 at 10:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
$32 for a family of three is asking too much. This is not a waterpark at a big amusement park so the prices are to high. Not to mention that most people buy some kind of concessions while there so you can easily spend $50. And will they charge you if you are just a chapparone?
Posted by: Jenn051773
March 7, 2013 at 12:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
@ proud, so you're saying the city KNEW this new pool would cost 4 times as much for staff and management, however they intentionally withheld this information from the voters when they asked for the bond increase to build it? Don't you think this information would have influenced the bond election?
Posted by: Bubba72704
March 7, 2013 at 12:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
don't go... that's my suggestion. I seldom find that officials or politicians are above board in their handling of our money or time.
Posted by: proud
March 7, 2013 at 12:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
I'd like to know how they are going to require everyone to prove they are a resident of Rogers or not?
Kids can't prove it? Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Posted by: spinsister
March 7, 2013 at 12:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Don't go? You're missing the point. Many people voted to spend tax money to build this park based on the assumption that admissions would be priced at a rate that would make the park routinely accessible to the citizens of Rogers. With these rates a significant number, maybe a majority, of Rogers citizens won't be using this park on a regular basis simply because it's out of their price range. Pretty poor example of local governance.
Posted by: Bubba72704
March 7, 2013 at 2:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Most importantly, I believe that many Rogers residents will choose to spend their money in Bentonville or Springdale as opposed to paying the ridiculous admission prices here. That means a lot more than Rogers residents just not going, that is gas money potentially being spent elsewhere, money for eating out after swimming, etc. The rates just need to be brought down to a more realistic level, particularly for those under 48" since this age group is basically only using the pool.
Posted by: relao
March 7, 2013 at 4:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Assumptions create these type of situations. If no one goes, they will change the rates. That's just how the free market works.
Posted by: proud
March 8, 2013 at 10:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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