The town pool is a “waste of money” says a Cheshire citizen quoted in the Cheshire Herald. Every year millions of dollars are spent on the Cheshire pool. Does it have perks? Of course it does, it’s a pool. But does it also have a lot of bad things about it? For example, this year we are spending 7 million dollars on a machine that will make it so the pool will not use as much energy. A lifeguard who represented the pool at a town meeting stated that 500 kids were taught how to swim in 2011. The real question is whether 500 kids learning how to swim is more important than millions of dollars that could be going to other essential needs of the town.
In my opinion the Cheshire public pool is a HUGE waste of money. I think that millions of dollars of Cheshire’s money should be going to more important things like education or healthy eating. Yes, I do believe that it is attractive to have a town pool, but I do not think it looks good to the town if the roof covering it is falling down every single winter! Did you know that 1.3 million dollars of the schools budget was cut so that there was more money to spend on the pool? I doubt it. There is no way that we have this much money to just throw at the pool and hope that it survives the year. Even if does survive then you just hope you won’t have too much trouble putting the bubble up and down. I have been a citizen of Cheshire ever since I was born and I think that I have been to the pool all of 3 times. There are way too many problems to worry about when dealing with the pool. I think that it should be closed for good.
~Adler Demac