AUBURN - The city and the local YMCA will team up to provide pool and swimming options this summer.
The city and YMCA will enter into a contract through which the organization will operate the pool at Casey Park. The city will pay $45,900 to have the YMCA run the lifeguard training and swim programs from June through August.
The Auburn City Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday authorizing the contract.
Before the vote, Auburn Superintendent of Public Works Jerry DelFavero said the city usually pays approximately $45,000 each year on programming at the Casey Park pool. The YMCA has the staff and resources to run it more effectively, DelFavero said.
“It gets harder and harder every year to find lifeguards and train staff,” he said.
YMCA Executive Director Kurt Kramer said Thursday that the city and the organization have been talking about the pool contract since around Christmas. It makes sense, Kramer said, because the city has a “beautiful facility” and the YMCA has the expertise.
“It's a great example of collaboration,” he said.
In other news:
• There will be a public hearing next week at which local residents will be able to voice their opinions on whether the Auburn Police Department should
purchase electronic tasers with a federal grant.
However, a couple of local residents brought up concerns Thursday over the weapons. Gary Temple said during a general session for the public to be heard that he believes it is a false statement to refer to tasers as non-lethal weapons.
Temple encouraged the councilors to do research about electric tasers before making a final vote. He also asked them to vote against a public hearing.
“Do not open Pandora's Box. If you open it a crack, you will not be able to close it again,” Temple said.
Councilor William Graney said there are a lot of questions that will need to be answered about the tasers, which use electrical current to incapacitate an individual by causing muscle contraction.
Councilor Matthew Smith also said he has to look into some more research.
“I look forward to discussing and doing my research on this,” Smith said.
* There will also be a public hearing next week concerning the city's application for the state Restore NY Grant program.
Councilors unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the hearing. They also unanimously declared the council to be the lead agency for an environmental review of the project.
The city is planning to submit to the program a proposal to tear down the Kalet building on State Street and build a theater, which will be owned and operated by the proposed music theater festival.
The city is requesting $2.5 million from the program.
* Councilors unanimously voted to install an electrical line that would connect a natural gas power plant at the landfill to the wastewater treatment plant. The approximately $453,000 project will be funded by a state grant.
Staff writer Christopher Caskey can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or christopher.caskey@lee.net.
The Auburn City Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday authorizing the contract.
Before the vote, Auburn Superintendent of Public Works Jerry DelFavero said the city usually pays approximately $45,000 each year on programming at the Casey Park pool. The YMCA has the staff and resources to run it more effectively, DelFavero said.
“It gets harder and harder every year to find lifeguards and train staff,” he said.
YMCA Executive Director Kurt Kramer said Thursday that the city and the organization have been talking about the pool contract since around Christmas. It makes sense, Kramer said, because the city has a “beautiful facility” and the YMCA has the expertise.
“It's a great example of collaboration,” he said.
In other news:
• There will be a public hearing next week at which local residents will be able to voice their opinions on whether the Auburn Police Department should
purchase electronic tasers with a federal grant.
However, a couple of local residents brought up concerns Thursday over the weapons. Gary Temple said during a general session for the public to be heard that he believes it is a false statement to refer to tasers as non-lethal weapons.
Temple encouraged the councilors to do research about electric tasers before making a final vote. He also asked them to vote against a public hearing.
“Do not open Pandora's Box. If you open it a crack, you will not be able to close it again,” Temple said.
Councilor William Graney said there are a lot of questions that will need to be answered about the tasers, which use electrical current to incapacitate an individual by causing muscle contraction.
Councilor Matthew Smith also said he has to look into some more research.
“I look forward to discussing and doing my research on this,” Smith said.
* There will also be a public hearing next week concerning the city's application for the state Restore NY Grant program.
Councilors unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the hearing. They also unanimously declared the council to be the lead agency for an environmental review of the project.
The city is planning to submit to the program a proposal to tear down the Kalet building on State Street and build a theater, which will be owned and operated by the proposed music theater festival.
The city is requesting $2.5 million from the program.
* Councilors unanimously voted to install an electrical line that would connect a natural gas power plant at the landfill to the wastewater treatment plant. The approximately $453,000 project will be funded by a state grant.
Staff writer Christopher Caskey can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or christopher.caskey@lee.net.
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james_13021 wrote on Apr 10, 2009 8:09 PM:
Was there some type of "sly" thought process behind an attempt at quotations, and including an out of context link to my username, or is "cutting and pasting" the extent of your keyboard skills. Ha! "
james_13021 wrote on Apr 10, 2009 8:04 PM:
can't spoon feed you everything,you must do some investigation on your own.
I just meakly posed several notions, and if you can't keep up... "
brew1234 wrote on Apr 10, 2009 7:56 PM:
GiveMeLiberty wrote on Apr 10, 2009 3:28 PM:
. . . nor shall local government contract with businesses which were founded by people of the same religious views. The maximum religious homogeneity amongst founding members of a business shall be set at 66%, otherwise that business shall be forever deemed "a church" and shall be prohibited from contracting with, providing service to, or be in any way linked with, any type of public program. Anyone who notices that this sounds similar to "prohibiting the free exercise" of a religion will be sternly admonished while I stick fingers in my ears and say "LA LA LA LA LA!"
--The constitution according to James_13021 "
fish wrote on Apr 10, 2009 2:17 PM:
gonesouth wrote on Apr 10, 2009 1:24 PM:
james_13021 wrote on Apr 10, 2009 5:13 AM:
Second: The Young Men's Christian Association, founded in London, England, on June 6, 1844 by George Williams, born on a farm in 1821, came to London 20 years later as a sales assistant in a draper's shop, a forerunner of today's department store. He and a group of fellow drapers organized the first YMCA to substitute Bible study and prayer for life on the streets.
What happened to seperation of Church and Government??? "