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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission April 7, 2008 SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS None REPORT OF THE RECREATION COMMISSIONER Financial Statements Mr. DiSalvo said that, beginning with the Monthly Revenue Report, he had it broken down into Month to Date Totals and Year to Date Totals and actually preparing ’07 Month to Date as well. The Commissioner said he does this for his staff: to get a report of actual numbers. Going down the line with Enrichment, Month to Date shows she is ahead of our projection of 8,400; she’s actually at 25,200, and that’s collecting summer camp registrations, coming in earlier than they did last year. In her year-to-date she’s fine with the variance. With her projection, she’s supposed to be at 11,600; right now she’s at 27,800. As usual, Jenny (Couts) is doing fine, bringing in the income. Going down the line, Month to Date, Cindi (Bartko) (Pool) is 3,300 behind the projection for what she should be bringing in for March, and she’s minus almost 6,000 with her Year to Date. With that, forms are being reported with program revenue status. The scuba rental still owes for February 3,000, and the collection from her lessons did not hit last month; it’s hitting this month. By the time we have the next Commission meeting, she’ll either be even or ahead as well. In going over these projections, this was a two-year average when each cost center in percentage points averaged all revenues. Again, this isn’t perfect, but this is the better tool in trying to predict and show Month to Date as well as Year to Date totals. The Rink is projected in bringing 70,000, and the Commissioner had a hard time explaining that to Betsy (Drenski), because the last two years averaged around 51,000, but her budget was set at 414,600, based upon what she normally brings in March. That’s why that number was so high. She was upset because she had no explanation why she was almost 32,000 behind in just one month. It’s just a percent matter. As Mr. DiSalvo said, in ’07 and ’06 her budget was not set as high as what it is set in ’08. Multiplying the percent average with what she was supposed to bring in this year was not near the total budget number high as it was the last two years. Ms. Drenski will make this up. When she saw she was almost 32,000 behind in just one month, it bothered her; but with almost 19,000 Year to Date, she’ll be fine. It’s just the way the numbers played out. Mr. DiSalvo asked if there were any questions. One member said he did not understand….another asked if they are not linear; you don’t take 414,600 and divide it by twelve…Mr. DiSalvo said that no, you can’t do that. In ’06 and ’07, the Budget was not set at 414,600; that number was lower. The budget number is set higher; it will bring in a bigger projection number. Query: was the budget number just entering in a certain percentage increase of revenue over the previous two years? Mr. DiSalvo said it was actual. This projection is somewhat skewed, but Ms. Drenski will be fine. Mr. Dailey asked how her number was this year compared to March of ’07. Mr. DiSalvo said 38,000 was her Year to Date total in ’08, and she had 46,400 for last year. Her reasoning is due to the weather and make up classes Learn to Skate Page 2