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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Paddle Boats...Summer Will Come


Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
 

GARDEN CITY- December 13, 2012. Lance and Jackie Bourn reported on their business that was allowed to operate in the Park last summer.  They would very much like to renew this license for the coming summer.  They would like to get started on advertising for the next season.  As part of the agreement for being able to rent the paddle boats, they agreed to clean that section of the beach and keep it clean.  They also cleaned the rest rooms twice a day, trimmed the trees, and cleaned the boardwalk. 
 

They discovered that they needed to have the paddle boards on the beach and use that location for the rentals.  As a result, they put up a canopy and stored the paddle boats in the restrooms each night. 

 
The found that about 85 percent of the people who rented the paddle boats had never used them before.  They found themselves in the teaching business as well as the rental business.  They tried to make sure that everyone had an enjoyable time.  They had a great number of people on FaceBook who said they enjoyed their experience.  They noted the business was not a big money maker, but that they would really like to follow through and try again this coming summer.

 
Several of the Council Members indicated that they had given this opportunity to the Bourns, but the whole idea was based on the plan of allowing a bidding process to be held in order to determine who had the opportunity to use that location after the first year.  They asked the Bourns to wait until next month so that the Council Members could listen to the minutes from last spring to make sure they followed through on what had been decided in that previous meeting.

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