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I mean it sounds like the tax-supported spending on the swim center is really minimal and must be a tiny fraction of any given resident's city taxes but maybe I am wrong.[/quote]

We don't like the service though.  The teams are dominated by non-resident elite freeloaders and the pools are like swimming in snot during the winter.

If MOCO can shut down KSAC why can't we shutdown RSFC?   Mary Antoinette: "Let them swim at Olney".[/quote]

They didn't shut down KSAC, they are spending millions to renovate it.  You will be welcome there once they are finished - it should be nice.[/quote]

That is a long time for kiddos.  OOps sorry drive to Silver Spring they built two facilities there.  Keep in mind my daughter already missed out on a year and a half or two years of swimming from Covid.  Not just my kiddo either.  USA Swimming lost like 18,000 swimmers.  It was really obvious who was able to "get in" to the competitive programs early, because everyone else was high and dry.

https://swimswam.com/usa-swimming-membership-declines-4-6-in-2023-after-promising-post-pandemic-growth-in-2022/

Is she going to be able to make RMSC in two years.  I don't think so.  Curse of the crummy coach strikes again.  Way to keep the troll on a roll.  [/quote]

Well, statistically speaking, if those declining trends continue, your daughter will have a better chance if she sticks around and continues to improve, so there's that.

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That is what happened this summer at the A meets.  I was trying to figure out how she could be making the Division A  A-meets, when her times were a second to two seconds slower than last years eight-year-olds.  Oh they're all like that.  I was able to get her in the pools KSAC, RSFC, Olney get enough practice in during public swim times, read some books.  I just don't think that is going to happen this year with KSAC closed.  It's just going to be too crowded and gross.  We'll probably just do basketball.  Such is life, but that $400,000 per year tax subsidy could be used for something else maybe build a gym hire professional basketball coaches or something besides funding the elitist non-residents spa.[/quote]

Your kid swimming a meets means nothing.  Ksac is closed but they were moved and a new pol was open.  You could have also tried out for germantown. [/quote]

Why don't the county residents that like to swim at RSFC go to Germantown.  Am I missing something, your suggestion doesn't seem very good.[/quote]

Seriously, why do I have to drive to Germantown? I don't understand the reasoning.[/quote]

You don’t get how this works.  You take who ever will take your child. [/quote]

And I think we should stop taking non-residents, so that residents of Rockville who pay taxes can have the convenience of a pool.[/quote]

If it weren’t for non-residents, the program wouldn’t be able to sustain itself. Non residents pay more. What’s your plan? Eliminate the competition to make it easier for your daughter to make the team? You don’t become an amazing swimmer by eliminating the competition, you become great by surrendering yourself with greatness.

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