>Life is full of risks and danger. The only way to ensure that no one drowns is to not have a pool. It is just as likely that some fool could break their neck diving into a cement bottom pool as it is that someone might drown in a blue/green pond. Already, what, 5 or 6 people have drowned off the beaches of Long Island.
The RPP wants a cement bottom pool for only one reason, the swim team at RHS. This would be a moot point if the village had built a pool at the high school 10 years ago. But as I remember, it was the Ridgewood YMCA that lobbied hardest against it and got the bond referendum defeated.
Our BOE, having the political acumen of Attila the Hun, failed to include a larger constituency when they put the bond to a vote. Once they repackaged the referendum to include elementary schools the bond passed. Of course, by that time they had to take out the pool due to political damage done by the YMCA.
Had they been more politically savvy, they would have included all the elementary schools the first time around, thus guaranteeing the votes for passage of a bond that included a HS swimming pool.
Now that the YMCA has booted the RHS swim team from its facilities, the team must go out of town to practice and hold meets. And it wasn’t like the Y was making it easy for the team when they did swim there. They got crappy times slots. I blame this directly on the self serving interests of the YMCA. At the time, they wanted the rent from the BOE so worked overtime to kill the RHS pool. Now they don’t. This leaves parents wanting a place for the RHS swim team to practice and hold meets here in Ridgewood.
Trust me on this, once an Olympic size lap pool is built at Graydon, which is stand alone from the pictures I saw, the next item on the RPP’s agenda will be to cover it with a bubble so that it cab be used year around.
Ask Mrs. Morales if she thinks a bubble might be a good idea once the pool is built. Afterall, her children are/where members of the RHS swim team?
