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(5/14/10): Cincinnati City Council and Mayor Announce the Closing of Ten Important Swimming Pools |
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Cincinnati City Council and the Mayor announced the closing of ten more swimming pools. The Cincinnati NAACP warned that the outcome of misplaced priorities would negatively impact pools, bus service, health care centers, and human services for other priorities. "This is about what all of us as human beings value and how public policy reflects those values from city hall in Cincinnati. What will our children do this summer?," Smitherman says.
May 14, 2010 . Cincinnati NAACP Media Release . Cincinnati City Council and the Mayor announced the closing of ten more swimming pools. The pools are listed below: . Filson, Mount Auburn North Fairmount Spring Grove Village College Hill Washington Park, Over-the-Rhine Over-the-Rhine indoor LeBlond, East End Fairview Caldwell, Carthage Inwood, Mount Auburn . Cincinnati City Council cut the recreation departments budget by $300,000. The budget cut resulted in ten more swimming pools being cut for summer of 2010. "Our community walks by pools with no water for the last 4 years. However, we are asked why children have nothing to do in the summer while recreation centers cut back hours and pools are closed in the highest demand period," president of the Cincinnati NAACP Christopher Smitherman says. City Council Members believe that city hall is not in the business of supporting swimming pools nor health clinics. However, they are in the business of supporting street cars. City hall wants the community to think that out of a $350 million operating budget there is no money to support $300,000 for swimming pools. The Cincinnati NAACP warned that the outcome of misplaced priorities would negatively impact pools, bus service, health care centers, and human services for other priorities. "This is about what all of us as human beings value and how public policy reflects those values from city hall in Cincinnati. What will our children do this summer?," Smitherman says. |
