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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Government Cutbacks Affect Randolph Cheer & Dance Company


RANDOLPH, Utah.  December 4, 2013.  Jen Wilkins, director of the Randolph Cheer and Dance Company, asked the county commissioners to reconsider the rental increase for the Senior Citizen’s Center.  They currently pay $50 a month for 5 hours a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays and always leave the center cleaned up.  They teach dance for over 30 elementary school students who perform for the high school football and basketball home games and go to dance competitions.   They can afford  $50 but  not the $240 that they have been asked to pay.   Commissioner Bill Cox said that the current rate was $12 an hour.  Wilkins said, “that is reasonable when you have a one day party.  But we are paying monthly and using the building for our youth during a time when it is unused.”

Tom Weston said, “this is a good program and gets a lot of kids involved."   

Cox said that the Senior center costs $80,000 a year and with the federal sequestration cuts they have lost $10,000 in revenue.   "We want you to be there, we will just have to work out a payment that works for both of us."
   

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