Woah, woah, woah. Bellayre Possbily Closing? (TGR Thread)

Thread on TGR saying that if DEC cuts go through, almost all of Bellayre employees end up loosing their job. Just overhyping the situation?
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=206177

FWIW, the source isn't very reliable.

TGR Mag wrote

 Got this msg from someone who runs the SKi shop and food services

Political posturing.

fujative wrote

FWIW, the source isn't very reliable.

The original post says Bell won't open. That seems like bad information.

Tony Lanza said 8% of his revenue is from passholders. So ... what would be the refund?

I know they aren't obligated to do that, but if they didn't there'd be a revolution.

EDIT: Lanza has a different opinion about the impact:

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2010/11/16/news/doc4ce2a8d76d910458598825.txt

i have some friends who ski there and they have said its been like that for a few years now. last year they said there were going to close as well but stayed open...

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise invoked the freedom of information act to request that the state of NY provide a list of DEC employees that are being eliminated this year.

There are 134 employees being cut and 45 of those are from Belleayre.  The total number of state employees being cut is 900. In addition 260 employees took early retirement. These moves are projected to save $250 million.

Because of the way state workers can "bump" those with less seniority the list isn't actually final.  But it is interesting.

The full ADE article and the list of laid off employees can be found here:

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/blogs.detail/display/942/DEC-s-layoff---ERI-lists.html