City governments these days are getting huge deficits at an alarming rate. Our own city has a huge deficit and has no idea how to fix it. Last summer, the city threatened to close all but four of our thirteen swimming pools to save money. No city should not be allowed to have the power to do that. The pools get more business in the summer than any other city run programs. The local swimming and diving leagues even have the most kids involved in that program than in any other summer program in the city. If the city wants to earn money, they shouldn't close any pools because otherwise they will end up losing money. Four pools for a city that had over half a million swimmers visit over the last summer is not enough.
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Of those half a million swimmers, how many of those were repeats? I dont agree that they should close down all but four, but does a city really need thirteen pools? I live in a city that doesnt have a public pool and if you want to go swimming you must drive over to the next city just to swim. Within a 20 mile radius, I believe there are only 3 public pools.
i think a city needs more swimming pools as possible. I was in the Navy. out of 113 people who took the swimming test ONLY 9 of us passed (i was in that 9 because of public swimming pools in my area of NYC)....
Yes, a lot of those were repeats, but consider how many swimmers each pool had on average. Almost 13,000 swimmers per month per pool. My swimming pool was filled to capacity every day and ours wasn't even a major pool in our city. Our city is a major city in the state, the state capital to be exact. Our pools only got about 6 cents per every tax dollar. We raised at least a million dollars overall from last summer. Sorry to disagree with you mandananda_2006, but when kids have nothing better to do, they come to the pool to swim. If even a quarter of our pools were closed, many of those kids wouldn't be able to go swimming because the remaining pools would be filled to capacity and they wouldn't be able to walk/ride a bike that far to the nearest open pool. Our city is too big. I agree with DantresOmi that a city needs as many pools as possible.
They should reduce the salaries of the officials not close the pools.
Yes, I know. Too bad the officials are the ones that wanted to close the pools in the first place.
I'm happy to report that all of the pools in my city are still open and are operating right now. My own pool was even renovated and everything looks great. Our pool staff is all glad to be back together at our "second home" since we all spend more time there than we actually spend at our homes.