This is our only Community Pool, an irreplaceable town asset.
Our High School Swim team needs this pool.
Spending $53 million on a plan which includes several questionable, unnecessary and non academic expenditures while also destroying our only swimming pool isunacceptable.
The $1.2 million offer from the YMCA should be negotiated.
The District can provide free swim lessons to every second-grade Rutherford child, at no cost, if it partners with the YMCA.
Other Facilities options exist that were not explored.
Security is not addressed with this $53 million Facilities plan.
This $53 million plan does not change Pierrepont’s use of portable classrooms or preserve outdoor space.
Additional STEM labs at Union and Rutherford HS are incorporated into ill-advised windowless spaces.
To demolish the pool would be a squandering of taxpayer investment.