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Santa Clara must get
swim center up to par
Re: “City seeks temporary solutions to pool issues” (Page B1, Feb. 1).
It is a disgrace that the city of Santa Clara has let the International Swim Center fall into the state that the facility is currently in. A minimum of two decades of deferred maintenance at the facility has finally caught up with the city.
The city needs to prioritize getting this facility back to an operational status, even if it is in phases. Get quotes for all the work and break it into manageable costs. With the additional revenue the city has been receiving from Levi’s Stadium, the corresponding transient occupancy tax and sales tax, the city should be able to earmark funds to bring this facility back to the status many of us knew in the 1970s and ’80s.
When the city sold the land under Great America, those funds could have been used for the swim center.
Conrad Schapira
Milpitas
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