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A lot of us have fond memories related to this place. Please help us restore this iconic location to swimming glory! Wouldn't it be great to have another Masters Nationals here?
Please share with EVERY swimmer you know worldwide!!!
The legendary Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Facility is in jeopardy of soon becoming history. We need your help and advocacy efforts to prevent this from happening. If this facility is to be saved and rebuilt to meet today’s standards for a word-class facility, swimmers and divers world-wide MUST SPEAK UP! The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will make a final decision on the fate of the Aquatic Facility at their City Commission meeting this Tuesday, December 1st which begins at 6:00pm. To date, a small group of advocates have kept the project alive. However, the final vote will be taken and if we are to succeed, everyone must inundate the Fort Lauderdale City Commission with e-mails of support for the Aquatic Complex.
For more than 12 years, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission had been pursuing plans for rebuilding the Aquatic Facility. Now that costs have escalated and other projects seem to take priority, the Aquatic Facility has been relegated to a low priority and perhaps scratched in its entirety with the land being repurposed for other uses. We cannot allow this to happen.
There are numerous opportunities to help offset construction and operating costs. Municipal governments world-wide have been engaging in public/private partnerships to make development and facility operations affordable. To date, the City has not discussed this as an option although a number of advocates from the Aquatic Facility have made the suggestion.
You can make a difference by writing to the City Mayor, Commissioners and the City Manager to express your feelings about the importance of the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center. E-mail addresses are as follows:
Mayor Jack Seiler: jack.seiler@fortlauderdale.gov
Commissioner Bruce Roberts: broberts@fortlauderdale.gov
Commissioner Dean Trantalis: dtrantalis@fortlauderdale.gov
Commissioner Romney Rogers: rrogers@fortlauderdale.gov
Commissioner Robert McKinzie: rmckinzie@fortlauderdale.gov
City Manager Lee Feldman: lfeldman@fortlauderdale.gov
Lauderdale won't build new swimming complex
Full story:
www.sun-sentinel.com/.../fl-lauderdale-aquatic-contract-vote-20151201-story.html
RDC proposed cutting out about $5 million in work to bring the price down, but commissioners decided they would be better off renovating existing pools instead of taking money from other beach projects to cover the higher costs. City staff will now explore what it will take to renovate the current complex.
Mayor Jack Seiler said the commission's decision won't mean the end of a competitive swimming facility on the site. The site hosted numerous national and international events over the years, but not since its bleachers were condemned in 2011. Visiting teams continue to train at the center.
"I'm not pulling the plug on swimming or diving. I just think we need to do it in a more cost-efficient manner," Seiler said.
The city has already spent close to $3 million in design work and other planning for the new complex. City officials have said a renovation project could be as costly as new construction because the existing swimming and diving pools have to be lengthened, widened and deepened to meet current international competition regulations.
Lauderdale won't build new swimming complex
Full story:
www.sun-sentinel.com/.../fl-lauderdale-aquatic-contract-vote-20151201-story.html
RDC proposed cutting out about $5 million in work to bring the price down, but commissioners decided they would be better off renovating existing pools instead of taking money from other beach projects to cover the higher costs. City staff will now explore what it will take to renovate the current complex.
Mayor Jack Seiler said the commission's decision won't mean the end of a competitive swimming facility on the site. The site hosted numerous national and international events over the years, but not since its bleachers were condemned in 2011. Visiting teams continue to train at the center.
"I'm not pulling the plug on swimming or diving. I just think we need to do it in a more cost-efficient manner," Seiler said.
The city has already spent close to $3 million in design work and other planning for the new complex. City officials have said a renovation project could be as costly as new construction because the existing swimming and diving pools have to be lengthened, widened and deepened to meet current international competition regulations.
