There are plenty of under used municipal and school pools across the country that could be bought or managed by an outside organization, just for the promise of occasional public access. USMS is not loaded with money, but has lots of knowledge and experienced people who could pull off a stunt like this. One club in Indiana has done just this thing by taking over a county pool that was in peril of closing because it could not afford to operate it. As far as I know, the agreement is still in force and the USMS club is still paying for operations by its own management and programming.
San Diego has three public pools but cannot afford to keep them all open at once, so they have one or two open and close the other one (or two) on a rotating basis. Not a good way to keep programs filled.
After reading about the incredibly stringent rules for reopening pools in California (reservations, SD, maps of traffic flow, 2 per lane, etc.), it is now obvious and apparent that USMS should in fact own pools across the country. The simplest way to avoid the burdensome city or county rules is to have a private subscription to join the pool(s) and keep the politics as far away as possible.
After reading about the incredibly stringent rules for reopening pools in California (reservations, SD, maps of traffic flow, 2 per lane, etc.), it is now obvious and apparent that USMS should in fact own pools across the country. The simplest way to avoid the burdensome city or county rules is to have a private subscription to join the pool(s) and keep the politics as far away as possible.
