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The Keele Pool is Saved!

April 23, 2009

Announcement from Let's Make Waves: Thirteen Pools Saved by the Toronto District School Board and the Province of Ontario.

The Keele Pool is saved! The community will be swimming there for years to come.

Let’s Make Waves is pleased to congratulate the TDSB. Last night the Trustees voted to provide committed support for the first 13 of the 39 city pools at risk. Trustees also voted to sit at the table with the Aquatics Working Group (AWG) to find a long-term sustainable funding and management solution for all the pools. The AWG work will continue until the next board meeting scheduled at the end of June. 

At that time, the Trustees will make a decision on the remaining twenty-six pools.

Let’s Make Waves would like to thank the Province for stepping in, providing the capital funding necessary to bring the city pools to a state of good repair.

We applaud our leaders for recognizing vision and commitment.

We would also like to thank David Crombie and Karen Pitre for creating the AWG, driving the direction, working the rooms and providing such a strong, well researched and valuable way forward. 

The citizens of Toronto thank you.

We now look to the City of Toronto, encouraging all Councillors and the Mayor to engage with the Province, TDSB and aquatic organizations in the AWG forum. 

Only through that forum, can our three levels of government and citizen stakeholders effectively participate in partnership to resolve the operational cost question for the remaining pools which the Provincial offer is conditional.

For further details visit http://www.letsmakewaves.ca .