cut the losses

Swimming is an excellent workout and builds endurance, discipline, and character. No doubt about that. All of that can be gained at any nearby pool in town, however. It may be an inconvenience to go to nearby pools for those half-dozen kids and their parents. To remedy that they could petiton the Council to transport thrm to Hialeah, Doral, etc utilizing the jitney. Or the parents of these kids should get together and pay at least a breakeven amount to practice here. The other 14,000 residents should not be asked to further subsidize the swim team because losing over three hundred thousand dollars a year on six kids means we are paying FIFTY THOUSAND a YEAR, a THOUSAND dollars a week for each one of them. That makes NO sense, especially in these troubled financial times. Its clearly a luxury we can no longer afford. That much is easy to see.