I have swam laps at the Burgess pool year round for the past 10 years. I have reviewed the three proposals for the pools. My take:
SOLO ‘s proposal is very ambitious. They want to do many programs, which may make it difficult to schedule them and keep up popular lap swim time. Has SOLO every run a pool program? And at two or three locations? As far as I know they run swim teams and training.
The Swimming Swan proposes to greatly reduce the morning hours, which is when there is heavy use.
Team Sheeper has a proven track record of running a very good program with three pools (Burgess, MPCC, and Palo Alto). They are very transparent, great at keeping users up to date on schedule changes, pool issues, improvements to the pool. During the pandemic they offered a safe place to work out and get out in the community. The scheduling process worked very well during that time.
I urge you to keep Team Sheeper as the pool operator.
Alison Blank
