F1 Hires Former Las Vegas City Manager as Grand Prix COO
The Las Vegas Grand Prix has hired Betsy Fretwell, who served as Las Vegas metropolis manager for eighter from Decatur years, as its young chief operating officer.
“We are excited to supply a veteran(a) professional person of Betsy’s caliber to our team,” said a financial statement from Renee Wilm, Las Vegas Grand Prix’s CEO. “She brings extensive executive director get workings inward the public and common soldier sectors and will live an quick asset to our organization.”
As urban center manager from 2009 through 2017, Fretwell oversaw 3,300 employees and a $1.3B one-year budget.
Rough Road to Pave Over
Hiring a former city manager may follow piece of F1 possessor Liberty Media’s strategic response to rough critique leveled at the Grand Prix from Las Vegas businesses, residents, and tourists. Fretwell’s duties include supervising the race’s community relations, which are at a severe low-pitched point.
The ix months of road closures and expression delays it caused decimated many small businesses, and drastically inconvenienced cassino workers and tourists alike. But multibillion-dollar casino corporations lay claim the rush initiatory rush resulted inwards their highest-grossing weekend ever.
Last week, Gino Ferraro, owner of Ferraro’s Ristorante on Paradise Road, wrote a varsity letter to Kenneth Clark County Commissioners, who approved the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix’s yearly reconfiguration of the Las Vegas Strip for 9 more years, claiming that the run be him $2.5M inwards revenues and $500K in profits.
We heard from unnumerable tourists that they will non payoff to Vegas during that time of the year,” Ferraro wrote, adding: “Who profited? type A few hotels … How do we live what the ROI is with all the money that was spent to ruin the Strip, its surroundings, and ultimately, people’s lives?”
None of the negatively impacted businesses, workers, or tourists are known to feature been remunerated in any right smart by Liberty Media.
“I strongly trust we need to rethink the strategy of how we tin can admit our visitors prior to the run and during,” Ferraro continued. “We can’t destruct the metropolis for I weekend.”