Friday, October 25, 2013

Shame On Las Vegas And NIAA

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You would think  city that can put on events that draw hundreds of thousands of people can totally screw up an event that draws about 600.
Today, at Floyd Lamb Park in Las Vegas(http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/find/21180.htm)
There was a divisional cross country race that involved teams from Laughlin to Lincoln and Nye Counties and many CCSD high schools, with about 400 hundred runners participating and couple hundred more coaches and spectators at Floyd Lamb Park
The park is owned and run by the City of Las Vegas and it is on couple hundred acres.  It has a small pond/like on it with a lot of geese, pigeons and a couple of peacocks.  It's a beautiful park, for the most park and it is a nice place to run a cross country meet except....
None of the toilets, when we got there at 9:00, had toilet paper in them.  Further, you just had 8 bathrooms open for about 600 cross country participants and visitors. 
There were no port a potties set up, even though they really needed.  Wait, I should say, that yes, a port a potty truck circled the race area mocking those of us who needed to go to the bathroom but couldn't because of no TP.  And at about 10:30, with two races to go, they finally dropped off 3 port a potties in the area where the buses were parked.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) put on the race and so, they deserve part of the blame for not ordering the potties and making sure they were in place at least a day ahead of time.
But how dare the City of Las Vegas hold a large event in the park, have just 1 employee in the guard shack collecting tolls, while having no one making sure that the bathrooms had some toilet paper in them.  Disgusting.
Mayor Goodman, is this how you treat your guests to your City by making not even providing the basics at a park?
Finally, whoever pays the bill for the port a potty company, they should refuse to pay, if the potties were supposed to be in place before the races began.
Shame on the City of Las Vegas and the NIAA for putting on such a crappy event without planning beforehand.

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