Can’t Swim
Speier was part of a group that pushed for Eureka to build a 50-meter pool back in the 1960s and ‘70s. It failed.
“That’s pie-in-the-sky stuff,” says Banducci. “Yeah, it’d be great. But I see a 50-meter pool right now sitting down at Yuba College, empty. Because they can’t afford it. We do not have the numbers of people to support it.”
But maybe a 25-yard municipal pool could work. Banducci and others say a model that has been successful elsewhere has been a pool jointly owned by a school and a city.
Eureka City Councilman Mike Jones, who learned to swim at Eureka High School (and whose son is the pool maintenance man), recently asked city staff for some figures on what it would take for the city to take over the pool. But he doesn’t sound hopeful, explaining the situation over the phone. And he doubts the city could afford to build a new pool much as he wishes it could.
“You can’t have a town without a swimming pool,” Jones says. “But we’re sitting here looking at five-bucks-a-gallon gas and kids’ enrollment dropping. I don’t see people coughing up bonds for a swimming pool. Although I think the best thing would be that people would see the light and open up their wallets.”
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