regarding the City council meeting 9/12 item k1 "Authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with Team Sheeper, Inc., to operate Burgess Pool and the future Menlo Park Community Campus aquatics center."
Hello Mayor Wolosin & the city council,
I am a city resident and I think that is imperative that while Team Sheeper is allowed to run the pool, that they keep the existing SOLO Aquatics team to continue their practice in the existing times. SOLO Aquatics should be EXPLICITLY WRITTEN into the team contract.
My child and over 130 children of Menlo Park benefit from the teams existence which is threatened by Team Sheeper if there is no explicit affordance for SOLO Aquatics as there have been in previous years. Team Sheeper has a financial incentive to block our long-standing team from existence by blocking access to the pool. Please please dont kill our club, and require the contract to continue giving SOLO Aquatics access to Burgess pool.
Jessica Gronski (Mother of Eliot Gronski)
What is SOLO and why is it critically important:
· Community history: SOLO has been a Burgess-based swimming club since 1993, and helped in getting the poole even built.
· Current value: SOLO enrollment is over 130 children, our largest since the Pandemic.
· Value: inclusive, no-pressure yet effective community program from beginners to national level.
The threat:
· Risk: Selected operator has incentive to eliminate SOLO in order to direct revenue to its own programs.
· New contract: Proposed contract makes no protection for SOLO.
· Previous contracts, dating back to 2006, always allowed for SOLO, by name, to continue programming at Burgess pool.
The Ask:
· Add protective provisions to the contract: SOLO has been included in previous contracts, please continue to allow our children to have access to this great facility.
