2001-106-RES DESIGNATING CERTAIN OFFICIALS AS BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR/ACTING BEHALF OF COP FOR PURPOSE OF TRPA

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MEMO To: From: Subject: Date: Mr. Dick Boots Dr. Jean Bailey Campbell City of Paris Swimming Pool January 18, 1995 ~.,~V~ I' , I have been involved in aquatics for nearly sixty years! First as a child swimmer and diver in municipal pools, as an aquatic water front director of summer camps, as a synchronized swimmer in college, as an owner of a back yard pool for 35 years, aa a professor at Bowling Green State University of Ohio serving as the Synchronized Swim Coach and the Women's Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Coach, as the director of more than 30 annual water shows, as an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Trainer and Lifeguard Instructor Trainer for over 20 years, first in Chicago, then in Ohio and for the past 13 years in Paris, Texas Since there is no municipal pool in our area, all the lifeguard and swimming instructor classes that are taught are, by necessity, taught at local motels, private clubs, country clubs or private back yard pools. Many of these are inadequate for part of the training and it is sometimes necessary for the class to travel to a church camp about 20 miles outside of town. Many youngsters and adults have no place to swim at all. Only the affiuent in our town who can afford to join a private club or own, or have friends who own, a back yard pool ever have a place to swim. Some are able to take swimming lessons through the YWCA, Areofit Health Club and private swim clubs, but them have no place to practice what they learn in the lessons. Many are unable to do so because oflack of funds or because the lessons are completely filled early in the season. Swimming is one of the most beneficial life-long exercises; water walking, exercises in water and water aerobics are valued activities for senior citizens and arthritic and cardiac rehab patients; and Physical Therapy in water often hastens recovery of patients. The majority of our citizens are deprived of the benefit of these activities because there is no pool available to them A well-run municipal pool that offers high quality swimming lessons, recreational swims, water aerobic, water walking, water rehabilitation classes, scuba instruction, competitive swimming and diving, synchronized swimming opportunities, high quality life guard instructional classes would greatly improve the quality ofJife in Paris and Lamar County. Be assured that I will help facilitate the construction of a city pool and work to help develop instructional and recreational activities in the pool.