You can read the article which ran in yesterday's Daily Sentinel about the continuous financial problems at The Avalon Theatre by clicking on the text of this posting .
Here's a fairly confident prediction: the Avalon will never reach break even status so long as it is a semi-tax supported not-for-profit entity.
It continues to show movies which draw audiences incapable of supporting their financial needs which in a normal situation would lead to a change of ownership or purpose.
This will not happen since the city of Grand Junction continues to demonstrate its rapidly eroding sense of fiscal responsibility by continuing to rearrange the legs on a dead horse to make it appear he is standing.
One has to wonder at the constituency that the city Council believes it is serving by continuing to allow this enterprise to flounder.
This latest example of the city's misapprehension of what constitutes market forces makes me feel even more agreement with my fellow commentator Gene Kinsey, former City Councilman and trenchant thinker.
His comments on the city's freewheeling expenditure patterns along with many other observations can be found at his blog "Living the Grand Life", which can be accessed through the Sentinel's blogs list.
It is once again becoming apparent that this April a radical transformation must be made at City Hall, not just in the personnel and elected representatives but apparently some thought must be given to the charter as well.
For instance, perhaps city actions the logical and direct outcome of which will be direct competition with existing private businesses should be subjected to a vote of the people.
Just thinking out loud.
