HI, Council
As the powerless Belle Haven Pool hybrid model community task force has made obvious, the current governance structure for the pool is useless because the pool operator has total control over all operations and is doing a miserable job. Assuming city council has any interest in making use of the facility it built and pays to maintain, it needs to make some changes, specifically a dedicated, transparent budget and a community-led governing body with power to make and carry out decisions. A ‘hybrid model’ will not work as long as the pool operator has control over what actually happens. It will just give the operator an excuse to do even less.
I know that a lot of regular users of the Burgess pool want to keep Tim Sheeper but the city pool operator is responsible for Belle Haven as well. You bought some time at the cost of handing Belle Haven Pool over to someone who doesn’t care about it at all. Use that time to find another operator. Otherwise our pool is doomed to remain underused by design.
Details are in Meredith Rohr’s Aqauatic Task Force report.
All the best
Nina Wouk
