AFTER LOCAL RESIDENTS rallied twice last month to save the community’s school pools, Premier Dalton McGuinty pledged $12 million toward capital funding.
The pools at North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Rosedale Heights Secondary School and Winona McMurrich Junior Public School will no longer be drained this June. However, how the $80,000 to $100,000 operating costs for each pool will be financed is still a question mark for former mayor David Crombie and his Aquatics Working Group.
“We need to sit down together and find long-term solutions,” said school board trustee Josh Matlow.
Last year, the school board announced that 39 school pools would close, citing insufficient funding from the province.