Mar 19, 2012 2:26 PM
East Hampton Town officials will soon be vetting two proposals by private businesses to manage the town-owned tennis courts on Abrahams Path in Amagansett.
Scott Rubenstein, the managing member of East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, LLC and Claude Okin, the owner of Sportime Amagansett, were the only two to submit proposals sometime last week, according to Councilwoman Theresa Quigley.
Their bids came in response to a town request for proposals to renovate and operate the four tennis courts, which have fallen into disrepair. The RFP was issued by the town on January 19, according to Jeanne Carroza, the town’s purchasing agent. She declined to provide copies of the proposals on Monday, noting that the Town Board had not yet reviewed them, but both Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Okin gave some details about... more
Scott Rubenstein, the managing member of East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, LLC and Claude Okin, the owner of Sportime Amagansett, were the only two to submit proposals sometime last week, according to Councilwoman Theresa Quigley.
Their bids came in response to a town request for proposals to renovate and operate the four tennis courts, which have fallen into disrepair. The RFP was issued by the town on January 19, according to Jeanne Carroza, the town’s purchasing agent. She declined to provide copies of the proposals on Monday, noting that the Town Board had not yet reviewed them, but both Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Okin gave some details about... more
instead of the 2 clubs competing to purchasing the courts, why don't they put on a fundraiser(s) to raise partial ...more funds for the repairs needed??? there has to be other ideas instead of letting the go.
His Revenues are $300K. So he's making $200K?
Oh, the town doesn't need that?
And he's predicting $500K. So he's on target to make at least $400K Per Year? WOW! Wish I got that contract.
And he wants a five year extension. Yeah, dam right he does. So would you! Oh, and by the way, every hockey facility I know of here on the Island is AT LEAST $80K per year to rent.
Elaine Jones
2 courts in amagansett by the school are private.
2 courts at the YOUTH park, property once owned by sporttime and swapped with the town, are only for youth and not for adults to play on with out kids.
3 courts at the springs school are managed by the school along with the high school courts
accabonac courts are owned by the town but fully in disrepair
herrick park courts are village run......................which leave abrahams park as the last ...more town owned and usable courts in, as my thread stated "east hampton and springs area", hence montauk not included.
and also i have used all of the courts mentioned above for close to the last 40 years, including last summer
you may be watching the board but who is watching you?
Wilkinson is striving to leave his corporate mark on East Hampton Town government long after he has gone to his final reward. As his civic authority nears its end, his pace has increased. Sewage treatment? Sure, give it to a corporation. What's the worst that could happen, that we would be held hostage by unaccountable ...more private entities at the cost of polluting our land? Tennis courts? Of course, private for-profit corporations are so much more able to run them than public servants. Why? Why do you ask? It is corporatist dogma that corporations do everything better. Don't be so rational.
Here's an alternative suggestion. Keep control of all public asserts without the intervention of private entrepreneurs. Use civil servants to maintain and manage public assets. Don't permit ideologues like Wilkinson to waste public property is the furtherance of a psychopathic agenda.
Don't give away anything valuable.
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Perhaps there is merit to the argument that we should never have purchased these facilities. However, having done so, it is both incompetent and mean to contemplate ...more handing them over to private enterprise.
East Hampton isn't a corporation. Didn't WIlkinson's near loss after "saving" the town make him realize that we don't want to be treated as one
No that I have found the facts can you please help me with these question....I think we will all benefit with the answers
1. Has the town found out how much the resurfacing of the court will cost
2. How much ...more is taken in from fees from the courts per years
3. If the courts do go private and then at the termination of that lease will the courts be hardtru clay or asphalt surface. If they are clay there will be great cost to make them asphalt again.
4. Outdoor tennis courts can only last a certain amount of time, as does shingles on a town building or a lifeguard stand. How come there has been no foresight over the years to start a repair fund of some type in anticipation of these needed repairs.
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”. Thomas Jefferson
I hope no rush decision about east hampton sites and status of public recreation are made without ample thought and process.
How much was taken in from fees for the courts over the years, and how much did it cost to run them? I hope all 5 members of the Town Board have those numbers. Truly. We shall see.
Nothing would please him more than to turn the Town Board into an accounting office for LLCs, a feat that would validate his power and career by affording him the ultimate corporate success that eluded him at Disney. Residents, however, may be unhappy ...more with the Town Board qua corporation when they find that previously nominal or low-cost venues come with a high price tag (or are no longer available), and that the status quo cannot be changed because of long-term leases signed in the Wilkinson era.
Citizens should beware of the siren song of corporate governmental efficiency. It was experimented with in the 20th Century and found unsatisfactory.