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Enough is enough

Janice TeoEastern Reporter

I WRITE in response to your front-page report in last week's edition headlined "Funding foul called" and to the gall of the heavily subsidised Floreat Athena Football Club wanting even more money from the City of Vincent ratepayers.

The club, which apparently pays less than $3000 a year for its monopoly on Litis Stadium, generates its own income from memberships (most of whom live outside Vincent), as well as operating as a function venue for hire, having an active bar, and even sub-letting the stadium to other organisations.

Vincent ratepayers, on the other hand, pay to maintain the stadium's buildings, bores and car parks. We pay for the club's use of rooms, shower facilities and floodlit training and game facilities on adjoining Britannia Reserve.

The club's lengthy bookings of the public Reserve, which saves its stadium, limit community and other sports' access on weeknights and weekends. And the club's management is still not happy.

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Enough is enough.

Floreat Athena has been a drain on ratepayers for many years and should move elsewhere so the community's facility can be shared by other sporting organisations and community groups that are prepared to give, not just take.

N.O'NEILL, Mt Hawthorn.