Now is the time! We need your personal email or phone call to the City Council to build Council support for a Comprehensive Aquatics Plan for Seattle.  Thank you….you will make a difference.

The Council gathers budget input during the month of October 2008 and makes its final budget vote in November.  The Council needs your input TODAY.

Please email each Councilmember individually to show your support.  Sending each email separately has a greater impact than sending a single email to all Councilmembers at once. Tips:

  • Tell them you support funding a Comprehensive Aquatics Plan — a forward-looking vision for modernizing and enhancing Seattle’s system of public pools.
  • Tell them what enhancing our pool system means to you personally.
  • Thank Councilmember Rasmussen for his leadership on this issue.

Seattle City Council: P.O. Box 34025, Seattle, WA 98124-4025
tom.rasmussen@seattle.gov 684-8808
richard.conlin@seattle.gov 684-8805
tim.burgess@seattle.gov 684-8806
jean.godden@seattle.gov 684-8807
bruce.harrell@seattle.gov 684-8804
nick.licata@seattle.gov 684-8803
sally.clark@seattle.gov 684-8802
jan.drago@seattle.gov 684-8801
richard.mciver@seattle.gov 684-8800

If funded, the Comprehensive Aquatics Plan will answer important questions, such as:  How will the City fund long-term maintenance of new facilities? How can we modernize our existing facilities? Does our current programming meeting the needs of citizens? What new programs and facilities are required? Where can they be located?  What are our top priorities?

Such a plan provides the necessary research and community process to allow individual groups to later spearhead and raise funds for individual projects, such as a pool renovation to include a warm-water therapy pool or a new outdoor pool east of I-5.  We need to begin planning now in order to be ready for consideration in the next levy – pools were not addressed in this levy because they lacked sufficient planning.  So let’s fund a plan!

Additional tips for contacting Councilmembers can be found here. 

For further information, please contact elizabeth@seattlepools.org. A Word version of this alert that you can hand out to friends is available here.

Thank you for your support.