First, I haven't graced the door of PPP in years. There's a reason for that.
Also, yeah I get it, it's not strictly proportional, but some things cost money: having a stupid big pool is one of them.
So, either he's dickishly frugal, or he's HORRIBLE at forecasting the costs of things.
Let's round out the analogy, shall we?
That pool probably cost, at LEAST a quarter million dollars. If I'm going to drop a quarter million on something, I aint losing sleep over the occasional $8,500 it requires to keep it functioning.
In sticking with the same percentages, that would be the equivalent of us dropping $400 on something.
That would be approximately the cost of a cheap bike. My wife bikes to work (her bike is much more expensive), but it works here.
If she wore out her brakes, she wouldn't **** a brick about spending $13.42 to fix them. Period.