DEAR News Of The Area
In regard to the draft aquatic strategy, what is on offer disregards (as usual with draft strategies) the needs and wants of the community.
Why is it that the community is never asked what it wants BEFORE a strategy is drafted?
And why does the Council always engage external consultants?
Is there no-one within Council anymore who can think?
Council always talks of public consultation, but we all know from past experience (a good example is the YAM) that public submissions received after a draft strategy is created are completely ignored.
The Sawtell Pool should remain as is and/or be upgraded but not changed into a water fun park.
We should be teaching more people to swim (especially newcomers to this country) and the Sawtell Pool is ideally suited to this.
And if Council argues that visitor numbers to the pool are down, maybe it is because the pool has been left to run down in condition and because the opening hours get forever fewer and shorter.
Roger Tindale
Boambee East
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