RAC Fiscal Success

Upon our first meeting with RAC they stated that the RAC would be open to all of Westchester and they would bus chidden in for programs. Clearly this impacts traffic and parking in an already congested residential neighborhood but there is a bigger point this highlights and is one brought up in the zoning meeting, That of fiscal survival. It is my understanding that RAC's last budget ran in the red. Now add the larger facility construction demands, staffing increases, program cost increases and maintenance, the only way RAC can meet these demands is to increase revenue through programs and events, further exasperating the communities concerns and objections.

RAC has used the Bruce Museum as a success comparison, but this is not realistic. Bruce's location and budgets run surpluses and has enough property to have a reasonable buffer to the neighborhood. Please do not allow this to move forward until a solution is found befitting of the neighborhood the RAC mission.