A Bay Venues boss has hailed the benefits of amalgamation after a strong set of financial results.
According to CEO Gary Dawson, their positive six-monthly report underlines precisely why council pools and venues operations were integrated into one organisation.
The Cosmopolitan Club is a key project for Bay Venues Ltd.
The council-controlled organisation's report to Tauranga City Council shows revenue is $299,000 (four per cent) ahead of budget, while user visits across the network of Bay Venues' facilities is 51,000 (six per cent) ahead of budget.
'We are on track to meet our operating cost savings target of nearly $600,000 for the year” says Gary.
'The positive results for the for the first six months of our financial year demonstrate that the benefits from amalgamating Tauranga City Venues Ltd and Tauranga City Aquatics Ltd into a new organisation are being delivered.
'Bay Venues has spent the first six months of the 2014/15 year working to truly understand customer drivers so that these can be used to drive business growth and customer satisfaction over the medium to longer term.”
Key initiatives are a customer insights programme, plus the management of scheduled maintenance work at the Mount Hot Pools, ASB Arena, Baywave Clubfit and at Greerton Aquatic and Leisure Centre.
'As a result of these projects and other programme and service initiatives, Bay Venues is experiencing the consistent increase of user hours and user visits,” adds Gary.
'Venues and events will be key economic drivers for Tauranga, which is why we have led discussions around the development of new venues or the changed utilisation of existing venues.
'Our aim overall is to provide high-quality facilities and services so that promoters will regard Tauranga as a place to do business.”
A key project is the proposal to turn the disused Cosmopolitan Club in Mount Maunganui into a high performance training centre, subject to key financial support being secured.
Gary says: 'Overall we are satisfied with our performance, and grateful for the support we have received from council and the community at large.”
5 comments
Yeah right
Posted on 17-03-2015 09:05 | By Capt_Kaveman
what about the losses for the past
Be very scared ...
Posted on 17-03-2015 10:39 | By YOGI BEAR
The staff numbers are blowing out, the annual cost to ratepayers is rising, he revenue earned for each visit is dropping. Yes it is a success story at every turn, every day ... when you live in "Council- la-la-land" where everything is better the more it costs.
Cost savings?
Posted on 17-03-2015 15:40 | By YOGI BEAR
So the massive increase in ratepayers handouts unwillingly and unknowingly included in rates is under budget? I guess what that really means is that they have not yet been able to spend it all yet even though they hoped to. Is that a good thing ... perhaps, but one can not help but see that huge increase in cost to ratepayers. You can not expand a meaningless huge monster like BVL and expect that it costs less. Add in the Council spend up on anything mode and BVL will be a roaring success at a colossal cost and the trumpets will be rabbiting on about how wonderful it all is.
Turning the corner?
Posted on 17-03-2015 16:31 | By YOGI BEAR
But the real question is "Where to?" the usual TCC and so BVL behavior has been from the "Fat to the Fire" and quite frankly when you cut away all eth hype and window dressing there is nothing real left except that it is all BS.
Hype
Posted on 17-03-2015 16:44 | By YOGI BEAR
The real question is how many staff have been made redundant and what has that cost ratepayers?
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