After making waves by considering the abolition of public lap swimming during weekday evenings in the swimming pool outside, Wilmette Park District officials decided to stick with the status quo.
After a request by a member of the swimming pool, Park District staff recommended opening four lines of eight-lane Olympic-sized swimming pool of 5-7 working days each to open the pool. These changes will take one of the five lines that are used by the new Trier swim club, and eliminating three lines open to the public for lap swimming.
However after the outpouring of opposition swimmers, Wilmette Park District Centennial Committee rejected its recommendations.
Committee Chairman James Crowley said the Park District received over 80 emails on the subject since then broached in November, and about 60 percent of them were against eliminating public swim laps.
Residents on both sides of the issue, however, who wants to know why to use both can’t be included into the pool during 5-7 pm.