We got fewer than the number requested. I think we requested 45. We got somewhere around 26 or so. Based on the allocation and the space, with the way the classrooms are structured, the gym is structured and the outdoor activities are structured, we then had to say to campers that we couldn't accommodate them at camp. We had to say to young people we wanted to hire that we couldn't hire them, because we didn't have the amount of resources to hire all those people.
That's where the flexibility comes in, where we could go back to the summer jobs program and say, “Listen, this is the number of young people we have who we would like to hire.” They're stuck on “your number's your number”, you know.
I know that other camps had to give money back because they couldn't run their camps. There's obviously a surplus in other areas. Why not reallocate those surpluses so we can use them to run a more successful camp?
This summer was a tough one for us, based on the fact that we had to turn campers away in a community where, if kids are running the streets, we all know all too well what the outcome is going to be. That's somewhat tragic and detrimental. We'd like that flexibility to be able to say, “We have all these kids in camp and this is the number we need.”