Burbank Year Round Swimming
Background
Burbank Parks and Recreation provided costs to the City Manager for a two-month extension to the summer swimming season.
Discussion Paper – Extension Of 2008 Summer Aquatics Season
See also
FY 2008-09 City Council Top Five Priority Goals
The Burbank City Council declared in its "Strategic 10-Year Plan for The City of Burbank" (May 1990) a goal to: "Develop options and identify costs with providing a year-round aquatic program. This process would include exploring the option of maintaining one pool operational on a year-round basis." (page 37, Section D).
The Burbank City Ten Year Plan
When Burbank Parks and Recreation polled swimmers in the winter months, a letter sent to a Parks manager warned of misleading results:
This is a notice posted at the end of the 2002 summer to encourage comments by adult swimmers:
This is a website set up by lap-swimmers in 2002:
My letter to the Burbank Parks and Recreation department on this - note the issues are the same in 2008!
After a meeting with Burbank Parks and Recreation department, a group of lap swimmers sent this petition in 2002. The issues remain the same!
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Two bulletins posted by the Parks and Recreation department in 2002:
Parks Department Letter to Swimmers, September 22, 2003
A few of my personal letters to the Burbank Mayor, City Manager and Parks & Recreation director from long ago. Not much has changed!
Let's open the pool, turn on the solar heat, move these covers to McCambridge and save energy!
Pool covers stored at Verdugo Pool
The oracle Frazz, on lap swimming: