A viewer mentioned she went to stroll the observe at the new Houston County Sports Complex, but was disappointed when she was asked to pay out a rate.
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A viewer achieved out to 13WMAZ declaring she went to walk the keep track of at the new Warner Robins sports activities complex, but she was dissatisfied when she was requested to pay out a fee.
75-calendar year-old Carol Mead of Houston County wakes up early each morning to get a stroll. She states the new athletics complicated is gorgeous, so she wished to examine it out.
“A group of seniors who are all 75 or older, we walk each individual day at the hospital here, and we have a superior time and we just determined, ‘Well, probably one working day we really should just test and walk in at the new athletics intricate,’” explained Mead.
So she and a close friend went to choose a search, but she says she was caught by surprise.
“When we ended up leaving and the men informed us it was $1 a working day to stroll on the observe and $25 a thirty day period, and I believed, ‘That’s a great deal, specifically for seniors,’” she said.
Mead claims she was below the perception that taxpayer bucks protected the prices of the facility.
Warner Robins Parks & Recreation director Jarred Reneau offers clarification.
“This developing was funded by SPLOST dollars, and the voters voted yes, and so we are quite grateful and grateful that we were able to move this rapidly to establish a facility like this, and we demand activity fees user charges to offset the price to assistance operate the facility during the yr,” mentioned Reneau.
The $18 million challenge sits on 67 acres on North Houston Street.
It incorporates four baseball and softball fields, four basketball courts, 8 volleyball courts and 12 indoor pickleball courts. They also have an indoor health and fitness monitor.
“It’s $1 to wander the observe or you can acquire a $25 membership to stroll the observe, and then we have open gym, which is for open up health and fitness center for basketball, volleyball, pickleball. It truly is $3 to occur out and to have that utilization for that exercise,” he mentioned.
Reneau claims The Stroll at Sandy Operate, Walker’s Pond, and Tanner Park are cost-free options to the keep track of at the new sports activities sophisticated. Reneau states there are banquet rooms you can lease out and an exercise center where they are going to be hosting activities.
The advanced is open up Monday by way of Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s also open up Sundays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. as very long as no one has rented the area.