Beneath the skyline of low-income city neighborhoods, the closest pools were tucked inside community centers, and for many, the classes cost too much.
The United States (3-0) closes pool play tonight against Brazil.The former Arkansas player Olumuyiwa Famutimi scored 17 points to lead Canada (2-2).
HOW have some city officials avoided closing pools?
WHEN, according to Bill Beckner, are budget negotiations that result in closing pools often held?
Birmingham, for example, has closed pools but their actual water space has increased".
Officials in other urban centers — including Atlanta, Cincinnati and Philadelphia — have also had to close pools, cut back hours or seek alternative financing in recent years.
"With city day-care centers closed, pools drained and summer camps shut down, it's turning into a lost summer," The Toronto Star fumed in an editorial this week.
Unlike pool businesses in temperate-climate states, like Florida and Texas, companies in the Northeast have the extra tasks of closing pools after the summer season, and then reopening them in the spring, with each job costing from $300 to $600, said Scott Margolis, of Aqua Tech Recreation, a pool service and repair company in Bronxville.
While the city proposed pool closings in its last two budgets, funds were ultimately provided and all pools were able to remain open; it is not the case that the city had to close pools, cut back hours or seek alternative financing as did several other major cities.
Bradford Council said closing pools at Bingley, Bowling, Queensbury and Odsal would cut operating and maintenance costs.
