Better Pools For Chilliwack

Help save community pools in Chilliwack and make them better.

Chilliwack families deserve safe, clean, accessible, well run aquatic recreation services, but the pools in our community fail to meet the needs of residents.

The best way to make sure pools in Chilliwack deliver the same accountable services families neighbouring communities enjoy is for them to be operated by the people of Chilliwack - managed by the City of Chilliwack and staffed with city employees.

Tell Chilliwack Mayor and Council that the best way to provide quality maintenance and services at the Chilliwack Leisure Landing, Cheam Leisure Centre, and Rotary outdoor pool is to choose a public option and make sure pool operations are wholly responsible to our community.

If our pools are publicly managed and staffed, Chilliwack residents who rely on these important facilities have a direct means to make sure the services are responsive to the people that depend on them.

Send a message now and let the Mayor and Council know that our community pools are important and should be run by the people of Chilliwack.

Better Pools for Chilliwack

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I am writing this letter to urge you to make sure aquatic services at Chilliwack pools are good quality, safe, clean, affordable, accessible, available, and well managed. I also want to ask that Council defer the vote on this contract until the public has had a chance to give meaningful feedback on how we would like our recreation centres to be operated.

As you know, the operations of the Chilliwack Leisure Landing, Cheam Leisure Centre, and the Rotary outdoor pool are currently contracted out to a private business. This model of an outside contractor providing vital recreation services in our community has failed.

Contracting out services to an outside operator does not put the interests of Chilliwack families first. Our pools are poorly managed with limited public swim hours and do not meet the needs of many residents of our community.

Recreation services are important for Chilliwack residents of all generations to help maintain a healthy happy lifestyle. I urge you to make the health of Chilliwack residents a priority and take over the operation of our pools to deliver the recreation services our community deserves. Please defer this vote until there has been open, transparent, and robust public consultation.

All our neighbouring communities provide accessible, accountable, publicly operated aquatic services. You now have the opportunity to invest in the well being of local families by making sure the pools in our community are the best they can be – run by Chilliwack for Chilliwack.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter. I look forward to your response.

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