Thursday, June 29, 2006

Pool consultant

The idea of hiring a consultant for the pool (Waterbury Rep-Am, by Lauresha Xhihani) is moving along. The estimated price tag is around $20,000. My comments mentioned in the article will likely come as no surprise to anyone who follows this stuff... I'm not going to vote to spend any more money on the pool, including for this consultant.

Tim White
Town Council, 4th District
TimWhite98@yahoo.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What is a pool consultant going to tell us we do not already know? The pool has two problems, lack of revenue and too high operating costs, due to energy.

To get more revenue you need to sell more passes. With the limited ammenities at the pool, I think we are the upper limit of revenue. When pass prices are raised, less people will buy. Take away the revenue from the swim teams, the picture gets darker. No matter how it is sugar coated the pool, with the bubble up is not an enjoyable facility. The mold, humidity and general grunge of the inside detracts from more revenue.

Energy costs are not going to get significantly lower. Natural will flucuate, but over the long term rise. The fuel cells may be a potential solution but I do not think so. If these free fuel cells are so good, why doesn't UTC give them to all towns in CT?

The pool consultant is a move by the Democratic majority to dodge the real issue. So they hire a consultant, if the consultant says close it down, will that really happen? Close, fix it or sell it, those are the only choices and we don't need a stinking consultant to tell us that.