Aquatic Center Upgrade Needed
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The Wes Deist Aquatic Center is a great resource for Idaho Falls. Unfortunately they have one big problem that must be addressed: the 2nd floor viewing room.
This is a large room with bleacher seating and large windows so parents can watch their kids take swim lessons below. The problem is this room gets UNBEARABLY hot and humid. Anyone sitting up there in the summer months comes out drenched in sweat and feeling gross. Parents want the best for their kids, but they also don’t want to sweat for a half hour straight. My wife has stated she is looking at the Apple Athletic Club’s kids swim lessons because she heard they have better conditions for parents.
This problem can be fixed easily by:
- Building a wall against the back of the bleachers
- Inserting a door in this wall to allow access between the viewing room and the second-floor landing area
- Installing an air conditioner to cool down the viewing room
The one-time costs of the wall and door, and the ongoing costs of the air conditioner should be offset by the increased revenue from more parents bringing their kids in for swim lessons. Unbearable problem, simple solution; who can execute it?
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0 Retread makes a great point about not maintaining our existing facilities.
Under Milam’s reign the focus of the Parks and Rec seemed to be build more parks and yet more parks and yet even more parks. And plant lots of flowers. And expand the greenbelt, must expand the greenbelt. For a while there was talk of expanding it all the way down to the end of Milligan road (about 1 mile south of Pancheri).
But do we really need more parks. Outside of special events like the 4th of July when was the last time you were at a park and felt crowded? Or did you feel kind of lonely which is what I tend to feel most of the time at our parks? Our community hardly uses the parks we have, so we certainly don’t need more.
I’d also prefer to have better maintained facilities at the ones we do have than waste money building dumb looking benches downtown for the drunks to sit, puke, and urinate on at night. Or planting flower boxes. Or putting up signs on every single light pole in town advertising some event (how about every third pole or so?)
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0 0 Has anything changed since this thread? I haven’t been there this year, but it seemed the same.
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0 0 Good question, and goodness I hope so! We have not been back there ourselves for a few years because of that horrible room. If they are not going to take care of it, at least remove Wes Deist’s name from the building so he doesn’t turn over in his grave.
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I concur whole heartedly on this one. I too, have sat and sweated mightily while watching my grandkids take their swimming lessons.
But, I don’t think it stops there. IF seems to have an abundance of sports venues, but seems to have an aversion to maintaining them. Just look at the condition of the baseball fields, the community center, the hockey and ice skating rink.
It really is an embarressment for a city of this size to have such poorly maintained facilities. Many smaller cities have much nicer facilities and as a result draw many sports enthusiasts to their towns for league and tournament play. This results in dollars spent for concessions and facility rentals, hotels, restaurants, gas stations and for many other services and goods. Why can’t IF cash in on this also?
What is the real problem? A timid parks and rec director who is afraid of rocking the boat by asking for a larger budget and additional personnel? A city council who can’t see the benefits to its citizens and therefore won’t properly fund parks and rec? A mayor’s office that doesn’t care about the recreational needs of the citizenry?
Come on, let’s get some quality recreational facilities and then promote their use and reap the benefits, both recreationally and moniterally(sp?).