The Transportation Security Administration is looking for managers to supervise the fitness center in its Pentagon City headuqarters. The request notes that the fitness center currently has only 220 dues-paying members; the annual membership fee is $312/year, which implies that total annual revenue is $68,640. Nevertheless, the request notes that TSA’s goal is for the fitness center “to be self-sustaining”…something that won’t be easy at that revenue level.
According to this DHS Inspector General report, the initial cost of this fitness center was $650,000. At least that expense was fully vetted by DHS — as opposed to the contrast with the gym at the Transportation Security Operations Center (TSOC) in Herndon, which, the Washington Post notes, was chastised in the same IG report.
I don’t have any objection in principle to government offices having their own fitness centers; it’s a good investment to the extent that it increases employee productivity and allows them to utilize their time effectively. But with only 220 dues-paying members at the TSA gym, it needs to be asked: might couldn’t they use the Bally’s Total Fitness, a block-and-a-half from TSA headquarters, instead?
– Christian Beckner
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Probably be cheaper to negotiate a corporate membership package, but then there’d be reduced budgets due to the savings and lord knows we can’t have that…