MAY 4, 2015 Â Â LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, MAY 4, 2015, 10:57 AM
BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
An early start to the school calendar, a late Sept. 7 date for Labor Day and the return of many teachers on the last day of August has caused a quirk in the schedule for Graydon Pool this year.
The pool is currently scheduled to cease weekday operations on Aug. 31.
During a work session last Wednesday, the Village Council discussed potential ways to make up for the lost days of available swimming, including the possibility of opening earlier during the pre-season.
This fall, students will return to school on Sept. 2 with teachers arriving on Aug. 31, which impacts the village’s ability to properly staff Graydon Pool during that final week before Labor Day.
Councilman Michael Sedon floated the idea of opening the pool to residents during the morning in June. Beginning on June 6, Graydon is scheduled to open at noon and close at 7:30 p.m. on weekdays while opening at 10 a.m. on weekends. Sedon proposed to have Graydon open at 10 a.m. on all days until regular season hours commence on June 19.
“I thought maybe a compromise might be opening it up in the pre-season earlier for an additional two hours,” Sedon said. “You would already have staff there, you would already have everybody doing what they would do at the pool, you would just have to do it two hours earlier for, I believe, nine days in the pre-season and there is a cost associated with that.”
https://www.northjersey.com/news/unusual-calendar-cuts-days-at-pool-1.1324950
some people just cant go with the flow. Bottom line: they can’t open the pool the last week before Labor Day because they have no staff. All the kids will be in school. So that means the people complaining are probably retired and paying like $20 for their badge. Get over yourselves. You can live with 5 less days of pool for your $20.
Brian, better leave for work now.
No, Brian, all the people who are complaining are not retired. Some of us are parents with little kids who are not in school. Other towns have figured out how to be open the last week of August. Problem here is that the powers of THREE do not use Graydon so they don’t give a s##t about cutting the pool,hours during the hottest week of the summer. And we will all be in town with our toddlers because our school age children will be in school., this really STINKS.
This is not such an unusual calendar quirk. Probably occurs every five year or so when Labor Day is late. Really? they have to close the town pool early? This is ridiculous. Clearly it simply is not a priority for the Village Council. they are too busy throwing Ruriks slings and arrows at one another.
If they had to close a baseball or other athletic field a few days they would never do it. They would ravage land; kill any and all wildlife, which they do with arti turf, anything goes so kids don’t have to learn to live with Mother Nature or learn to wait their turn, to learn patience.
They should absolutely open ppol the first week of Sept. before Labor from 3 to 8 p.m . They don’t give a damn about Graydon.
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AMEN to 8:08 PM!!!