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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about![/quote]I think the complaint is that the budget is now cutting things that impact core education.  Swim is just a nice to have and is limited at best, as no kid is learning to swim in these sessions.  It's a lot of disruption for little benefit.[/quote]

+1 Exactly! The people who are lobbying to keep it probably have kids who swim so have a vested interest in the 3 million APS pays to maintain pools for their family's benefit. Why should the rest of us subsidize that? [/quote]

News flash tons of people use the public pools for swim lessons when their kids are at that age and lots of older people swim laps.

You can say this about anything in the community.  My kids no longer use playgrounds.  I don't want to subsidize that.  Senior centers?  I don't use them.  Get rid of it.  What about all those social services for poor people?  Not our problem right?

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No, you are not understanding the point at all. All of these are good services for people in the community. But they should be managed and paid for by the county not by APS.

You can't really be serious that APS should manage playground, senior center, social services?[/quote]

The point is there is not some bright line and APS and the County are BOTH funded by all of us for the community.  Pools are embedded in APS facilities and should be managed by APS just like it makes sense for school nurses to be managed out of county public health.  It’s all the same larger pot of money and people should want their government to do what makes sense and provides the best outcome.[/quote]

It's not the same pot of money though, do some research on how this works.[/quote]

I know exactly how it works.  The county board holds the taxing authority and most (not all) of what funds local government comes from a variety of property and other taxes.  The County Board then gives a portion of the revenue to the School Board via a revenue sharing agreement.  Like I said, both entities (County and APS) are funded by the entire community through our tax base.[/quote]

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