{"id":251274,"date":"2025-10-25T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:21:11","slug":"give-city-golf-course-1-year-to-determine-viability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251274\/","title":{"rendered":"Give city golf course 1 year to determine viability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Watertown City Council Candidate Anthony Velasquez says the city-owned golf course should have one year to turn a profit, or a new direction is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Velasquez joined us for 7 After 6 on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Velasquez says the budget, homelessness, and infrastructure are the top 3 issues he sees in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He\u2019s tired of seeing budgets proposed with double-digit tax rate increases. He says the city manager should be giving council a balanced budget, with necessary cuts made, then allowing council to decide what not to cut, rather than having to make the cuts itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As for the Thompson Park Golf Course, Velasquez says it needs to prove its worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cGive it one more year to determine its viability, to see if it breaks even. At that point, I would like to see it leased out or even closed,\u201d said Velasquez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Our entire interview with Velasquez was live-streamed on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We spoke with each of the four candidates in the same format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Join us live online again next Tuesday for a debate with all four candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can watch the full 7 After 6 interview below.<\/p>\n<p>Velasquez says the budget, homelessness, and infrastructure are the top 3 issues he sees in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Watertown City Council Candidate Anthony Velasquez says the city-owned golf course should have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[136862,136865,136863,427,3381,99,136864,76078],"class_list":{"0":"post-251274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-7-after-6","9":"tag-anthony-velasquez","10":"tag-full-interview","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-interview","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-watertown-city-council","15":"tag-wwny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}