Channel 3 Editorial

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I like that he agrees that the method of the Y's madness is incredibly ham-fisted.  But he has buried (or completely missed) the lede among concern for refocusing the Y's mission.  Refocusing is something you do after seeing to your obligations (legal and moral) to dues-paying members.  You don't become aware of a problem in September, allow hundreds of families to sign up in good faith in September, and then rearrange the deck chairs on your sinking ship in November.

Again I have to ask:  Why are dues-paying members of the swim team not actually treated with respect due all Y members?  It's like they have two tiers of members:  Swim Team (who pay for the service) and Others (who may or may not).

Incidentally, I've heard from more than one person that this is typical Y behavior, in that every ten or so years, the swim team is decimated because the swim team claims too much pool time.  In due time, after Carrie Wall "retires" with a generous pension, a new Executive Director will come on board, and the swim team will increase in size (after all, the pool now languishes, empty, and what better way to fill it?), and then yet another Executive Director will arrive, and perhaps that one will feel threatened by the success of the swim team;  after all, it doesn't reflect well on them (they didn't build it), and will the incredible ego of that new Executive Director be able to tolerate the success of a swim team when three or four people are complaining that they can't do 10 minutes of lap swim at night?