Hey Everybody-
Guess what? Our coaches positions have been eliminated by the City of Walnut Creek. This is not a joke. Of the Aquatics programs in the city, ours is the only one that operates in the black, and yet they are going to cut it.
If you could, would you shoot a brief e-mail, to the city council and let them know what a successful program this is across the country and in the world. All few hundred of us are doing what we can, but I think it's time to bring in the big guns- you.
Kerry has spent 30 years of his life building this program into what it is today, and helping many of you in the process, please help him and the program that he lives for.
The address is: mayor@walnut-creek.org
and ask them to respond to your e-mail.
Thanks,
Karen Duggan
I posted in my blog a week or so ago that Seattle is considering closing several city pools. So, yeah, this kind of thing is happening all over the country. Let's face it, pools are expensive to staff and to maintain and it looks great to the city's bottom line to simply close them or eliminate positions like apparently Walnut Creek is doing. Definitely write, email, call, whatever the mayor's office and city council to show you care about these things. Don't just assume others will so you don't have to. I'm attending a public hearing after work today and hope to get my three minutes to discuss how important the pools are not only to me, but to the entire community.
I posted in my blog a week or so ago that Seattle is considering closing several city pools. So, yeah, this kind of thing is happening all over the country. Let's face it, pools are expensive to staff and to maintain and it looks great to the city's bottom line to simply close them or eliminate positions like apparently Walnut Creek is doing. Definitely write, email, call, whatever the mayor's office and city council to show you care about these things. Don't just assume others will so you don't have to. I'm attending a public hearing after work today and hope to get my three minutes to discuss how important the pools are not only to me, but to the entire community.
