Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Lake Worth--Open our Pool
How long has this commission and our inept administration (an administration that has literally thrown up its hands) been screwing around with our pool? The administration, those who actually run our city, allowed the maintenance of our pool to decline. And now they have proposed spending $$$$ millions of $$$$$ to yank it out and/or rebuild the entire area.
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The discussion should begin with getting swim teams, swim instruction groups ( including non-profits) , Scuba dive instruction ( at least a dozen large shops in the Palm Beach County area with a massive amount of hourly pool use and budget for pool use) and many other income stream related primary drivers of a major pool at our beach making SENSE for Lake Worth. I could help with the Dive Industry.
I agree with everything you said Dan if you remove the words "at our beach". All of those things can be done where you don't have to pay $3.00 per hour to park (minimum 2 hours) Put it where more people will use it.Save the beach for the beach.
@5:15--Our pool has ALWAYS been at the beach. People WILL use it...just get it opened...market it...and get the swim teams back. Get the Navy Seals back.
Why build a pool for millions somewhere else when we have the only Olympic pool on the east coast of Florida? Why do people want to waste tax dollars? Just repair and maintain our pool that we have.
THEY think that they will be BIG if they do a big project.
How about saving some of the penny tax revenue and use it to reduce our taxes.
Re-do and re -open our olympic pool.
I don't use the pool so why should I pay for it? This is socialism at its finest. Citizens paying into something that doesn't benefit them to satisfy the masses. How does this differ from Obamacare in that regard?
Open up a GoFundMe if you think it's that important, Lynn. Having the people who want to use a pool, pay for the pool makes the most sense.
dan has good ideas.think out of the box.the Olympic and marines probably wont be back as there are a lot of indoor pools in the north now.i like people that can think out of the box but get all ideas
@9:07--LOL
I guess next you will be saying that since you don't use a certain road in this city that you don't have to pay that share of the bond debt. You are a riot. Get another bogus argument that will make as much sense as you. I'm sure you can do that. :)
You should know Laurence that you cannot use the penny sales tax for tax reduction. The pool is a loser no matter where it is located. Back when it was built, the Lake Worth casino was a social event. There were bath houses, high dives, snack bar, etc.
Things change. Lake Worth never does.
Actually, Jeff's thoughts have some validity. If $20 million can be raised to build a wall, why not raise a fraction of that through a GoFundMe and present it to the commission for the pool?
In the same way that I shouldn't be paying for someone's healthcare or someone else's car wrecks, why should I be paying for some pool I never use? Either that or charge membership fees or entrance fees to use the pool so that the people who actually use it, pay for it.
I'm really tired of people getting stuff for free that is paid for by others in America. If you want it so bad, pay for it. Stop demanding that others give it to you.
The parking fee is a bear!
@4:23...really don't know what you're talking about.
Do you use the Wimbley gym?
Do you use any of our city owned buildings?
Do you use all of our parks?
Do you drive down every road in this city?
People ARE charged for the use of our pool...every single one of them who enter.
This pool has been at our casino since 1926. Get over it. It is an amenity and valuable for our city. The city needs to maintain it. And we all pay for that whether we use it or not. Of course sitting empty for going on 4 years or something is not helping.
Instead of using no facts in this discussion, let's create a Pool profit stream committee that would reach out to swim teams, swimming education groups (Stats show as many as 70 percent of the people in Florida do not know how to swim--teaching swimming is not just a money maker for the pool, it is a moral imperative)...Put the pool where the "masses" go, and the likelihood of their "using" it increases over a pool they will never get within 5 miles of. Scuba diving and Freediving instruction requires a pool, and in FACT, pools are very hard to come by for dive instruction in Palm Beach - actually often a limiting factor. For Freediving, a pool MUST be 10 or 12 feet deep at the least, or practically no snorkel instruction value can occur. When I began running the non-profit Project Seahorse for the city of Boynton Beach, we COULD NOT USE THE BOYNTON POOL, because it was only around 4 feet deep...something ridiculous. We had to bus the kids all the way to the Delray Beach pool, to get DEEP END that would be functional. The beach site for a pool will be INTELLIGENT, as it would help the large number of non-swimmers that visit the beach regularly. And for the non-swimming parents taking their kids to the beach, seeing an easy way to protect their children from drowning, and getting them more fun at the same time, should be a "no brainer" See what we did in Boynton for kids like this : https://youtu.be/atF5usXOI-c
this is really getting boring.since the 60s every commission meeting has had sometning to do with the pool property.some move here and have a better idea for the city.then the other side bitches.everyone wants statues and walls and signs to remember history.well just fix the damn pool and move on to bigger problems.cleaning up our intrance to town.cra cant or wont do it
If you believe the government should provide roads, schools, police and fire departments, social security and medicaid - aren’t you a socialist?
@9:26--the same old lame stupidity. Who is this, a former anarchist commissioner in LW?
People pay for all the things you mentioned above. Nothing is free. Someone pays for it. Did you mean to say "Medicare?"
"Someone pays for it."
We all do. We all contribute money to a pool of money that is used to build and buy things for all of us.
Isn't this socialism?
@9:29--a lot of people in this country (nearly half) don't pay a dime for anything especially federal income taxes that supports this country. (in Marxist theory) socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.
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