New Swimming Pool!!!
As Groups of adults at Cape Henlopen help support the new field and swimming I also support the help too because when ever the kids get hot they can just hop in. Regular users such as swim teams used to ask their members to buy a pool pass; now they are paying $6 to $8 per lane-hour and soon even more, which will drive up the team membership fees. Eventually, the numbers people who seek to prove pools are not worth their cost will win out.Pools are money straws, and in a municipality, they rarely come close to breaking even, much like a library or the police and fire services. Ski trails and soccer fields might be mowed and maintained by volunteers, but it takes a bit more to balance the pool chemicals, heat the water and keep the building from corroding due to the humid climate a pool produces. Then it takes a staff of lifeguards to keep the pool safe. None of these workers come cheap, especially under government and union contracts. If volunteers could rebuild the roof, mow the pool or staff it with less expensive help, I would bet some involved people would do so. And just as with the soccer fields, ski trails or golf courses, users from all over the state come to enjoy and use Anchorage’s city pools for competition and recreation.
