The Tauranga City Council is proposing to reduce Memorial Pool's season by eight weeks, tighten opening hours and increase adult entry fees by 20cents.
The proposal is part of councils 2014-2015 draft Annual Plan.
In the plan Memorial Pool's season will reduce from Labour weekend-April, to early December -late February. During this time the pools could be closed between 10am-2pm and entry will increase to $4.10.
The cuts will save $13,700 annually, which swimmer Mary Parker believes isn't enough to warrant the changes. Click here to read the story.
SunLive asked members of the community what they thought of the proposal.
7 comments
So sadly uniformed
Posted on 06-04-2014 09:02 | By Murray.Guy
Saving $13,000 and further eroding safe swimming initiatives to enable millions converting the Phoenix Car Park to grass, to avoid the obscene over staffing and associated budgets at the Council and assist spend $5.4m on a ratepayer subsidized boat lift at Sulphur Point? Easy to get the response you want when you manipulate the information provided, the questions asked. Imagine for a moment if respondents were given a list which identified proposed expenditure and amount, proposed cuts with a tick box to prioritise - you would get totally different feedback along with horror! Possibly why it's not done!
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Posted on 06-04-2014 09:15 | By Capt_Kaveman
comment = swim at the beach its free = simple
Carcass
Posted on 06-04-2014 15:31 | By Carcass
If they get rid of the Maori committee it would not be necessary to do that.They are un elected and would have no cause for compliant
Swim Swim Swim
Posted on 06-04-2014 21:58 | By Saywhat
Get real!! We are talking about our children learning to swim. There should be NO cut backs. Every parent out there should be fighting for the right for our kids to swim. Please fight this people/friends and whanau our children must swim!!!
@ Murray Guy
Posted on 07-04-2014 10:34 | By Councillorwatch
What about the $5 million "loaned" to Baypark when you were a councillor? What about the purchase of a Speedway business and even a catering business? In my opinion things were little different when you were a councillor. What about all the cuts to the bureaucracy that were going to happen? You go on about overstaffing, but what did you do about it? What about the human pain of staff that were sent on their way?
Swim
Posted on 07-04-2014 15:40 | By bryrose
Capt Kaveman,where did you learn to swim? Not everyone is able to swim in the sea, eg babies, handicapped, elderly. Selfish I think.
What a joke!
Posted on 09-04-2014 11:38 | By senselesssmoke
as a former life guard at memorial pools it would be very sad to see the pools cut back their opening hours and the people that do swim there would say the same. I think the exact opposite would be much better more advertising about the pools and their opening hours and keep them at a standard tempreture so people can swim there year round, half of tauranga don't even know there are pools here. its so nice to be able to swim outside in temperate water year round.
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