Lake Worth already has a baby pool. So, why in the world would they ever consider a proposal by Hudson Holdings to fill this one in and build another one, one of which Hudson would have control?
This is the same idea of spending $13 million at our beach park just a few years ago and then tearing it up and rebuilding it and losing control of our beach to a developer, one for whom they know nothing--any financials even provided by an auditor? How nuts is that? Do we really have money to burn? Will our property be in limbo just like Hudson's Gulfstream Hotel purchase that lanquishes one year later? Who is dreaming up these ideas at our city? Does management sit around at Calleros over lunch and brainstorm?
But we'll get our most valuable asset out of our hair
says management..."we can't manage squat and
we're the first to admit it."
Our BEACH is fine . We need a new city manager.
ReplyDeleteThe pools are both, finally, in great condition. It would be nice to get the locker-rooms/bathrooms updated at some point, but its not worth losing control of our beach to do so.
ReplyDeleteWe would have had them done if the money wasn't diverted to John Szerdi's company to design the south end bathrooms.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of money spent to design, not build,the bathrooms at the South end of the beach could have financed the whole renovation of the pool building? Someone's off her meds.
ReplyDeleteNot on any meds, anonymous at 5:58am. You should have slept a little longer... Perhaps design and build is an accurate description of what happened here.
ReplyDeleteAh ha! We've finally identified the problem!
ReplyDeleteLynn's off her meds. (Probably not taking and hormone replacement therapy either!)
Why can't you people understand that the pool - as is - is something 'customers' like high school and university swim teams - don't want to consider because there are way too many other MODERN facilities that meet Olympic standards of length and depth of the entire course.
Our pool is fine for use as a municipal pool, where little ones learn to swim and adults do water aerobics or masters swims. It's not university class - so unless we're willing to upgrade and update the facility, we are left with a relic of the past.
If we're keeping the relic, then I'd like to see cabanas we can rent and a decent cafe much like I remember the big pools of the 60's and 70's.
I don't know anonymous above at 9:47. I'm not the one sitting on the dais and blowing up at commissioners as well as the public. I'm always calm, cool and collected. :)
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe your comments are false.
What part is false?
ReplyDelete10:26--your entire hypothesis and assumptions.
ReplyDeleteI don't know Lynn. I think Anon @ 10:26 is right. The existing pool replaced the one originally behind John G's. It was built just as changes in lengths from yards to meters. Unfortunately what's there is yards and the swim meets we were expecting didn't happen because of it. It was still good for practice though.
ReplyDeleteSomeone also mentioned the depth is wrong also.
As mentioned, high school and college swim meets are in yards. The ends of the pool do not affect these meets as they swim the width, not the length. International meets are in meters.
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