Maybe it's the taxpayers who should be screaming. As Joe Soucheray asked rhetorically on his AM1500 radio show today, "how in the world could the Lake Harriet refectory lose $125,000 a year (in maybe five months)?"
Do we know the annual sales figure? One caller asked if the employees were helping themselves to more than just ice cream. Is there a management problem here? Dick Saunders Diamond Lake (where the nearest ice cream shop is two blocks away) -----Original Message----- From: Annie Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Barbara L. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Minneapolis Issues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] RE: Park Board Decision on DQ >I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream - and you shall have it >again... > >The game plan is to operate this summer with a competent manager and >trained staff with an eye on what we are doing - same popcorn, same ice >cream as in the past. Then next fall after the survey is taken this summer >and we look at more options we'll take the matter up again for hopefully a >longer range solution that everyone can be happy with a new plan will evolve. >I want to publicly thank everyone for your response - this was truly >democracy at its finest. > >I just want to add a couple of other things. >1. I want to be clear that I am not upset with my Development Director - >it is his job to come up with and evaluate what we are doing and look at >solutions to help us bring more money into the system. He was never given >any parameters for what that meant - and he too got the wind knocked out of >his sails - only because he didn't know any better at the time -- and it is >you the public who really told us (one commissioner cannot do it alone - >believe me!) So I assume that over the next few years we will continue to >look at innovative solutions to meeting the financial needs of the system. > >2. And for those that think e-democray is limited in its scope of who it >represents only brings up the point that it wasn't just this list but tons >of phone calls, e-mails from others not on the Mpls Issues list, and even >the old fashioned "snail" mail letters that were part of the barrage of >dissension. In the testimony on Wed. night there were speakers from the >suburbs and several from north and northeast Mpls and there was the lone >wolf who supported DQ. So it was a broader group than just those who live >by Lake Harriet. > >3. The Pioneer Press article says we will do a market survey of residents >and what they want. No. I was clear that the market survey needs to be a >cross-section of users about both kinds of food and pricing of products.; >that as a regional park and the 2nd highest visitor attraction in the state >(to the Mall) with 5.5 million users it needs to include lots of input from >other places and people, too. (just a note: some of my e-mails did come >from other parts of the country). > >Again, thank you all, >Annie Young >citywide Park Commissioner > > > > >_______________________________________ >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: >http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
