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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We go to Jeleff often, as it's the only option, but that's an old facility with no real pool changing rooms (in the basement of the adjacent building). 75% of the chairs are broken rendering them useless so you need to schlep all of your own chairs with you. It's often overcrowded with nowhere to even set up a chair. Have the people recommending it as the end game solution even been there? It's not a quick easy shot for many people in Ward 3."

This is a huge concern for me about a new pool operated by DPR. It  doesn't even take care of the existing facilities. My kid plays soccer at Jelleff and that pool is a quarter filled with green slime for more than half the year. If there was a body at the bottom of it, nobody would know until pool is drained in May.[/quote]

This is what blows me away about the whole situation: if you were a private sector manager, and your company owned a facility, and your boss told you that the company was going to do a $12 million expansion, but the neighbors didn't like the way you'd been operating the existing facility, wouldn't step one be addressing the existing operating concerns? If only for six months or so? Isn't that Public Relations 101?  Oh, and if the last time you expanded you'd made some promises to the neighbors, and hadn't exactly kept them, wouldn't it be a good idea to start honoring them until your project gets approved?

I've been to public meetings at both Hearst and Palisades in the past few weeks, and  DC officials will make all sorts of promises about future operations, but when people ask them about current operations they act like they'be being asked to do the impossible. And then they wonder why people don't believe them.[/quote]

Not to mention that according to the NW Current report on the recent meeting held at Hearst Park, DPR officials went out of their way to indicate that they were not the ones to choose the Hearst site.  It was Mary, Mary Quite Contrary.  [/quote]

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