Greeting Marlins,

Hope everyone had a nice winter!

The Rec and Swim Club board asked to meet with the parent board members
last week to propose new policies and a new schedule for how they want
the swim team to run this coming summer.

They are opening the pool on Saturday, June 27th, so we can start practice on June 29th. They want us to hold our practices from 8am-10am on Monday thru Thursday mornings.
We can only host 2 meets on Saturday mornings before the swim club opens.

In essence, our Summer Season would only be 4 weeks long. However, they would no longer require our swimmers to be members of the swim club. We would be our own entity so would essentially rent pool time for practices and our meets. The plus side is that we would have the whole pool to ourselves during practice.

Therefore the parent board would need to figure out how to get the proper certificates of insurance to have our own team, figure out how much to charge the members of the team to cover those costs and to pay for the swim club rental and coaches salaries from those fees. As of now, we have no idea of what the fees would be per swimmer.

To say that we were shocked and saddened at this meeting is an understatement. The Marlins have been in existence for over 25 years! They stated that it comes from the fact that the swim club has been losing money over the past few years, their membership is down and they just can’t afford our team at this point in time.

We have a few questions for you to see how we can move forward:

1- Who was planning to be on the swim team this summer (prior to this email)?

2- Who has already joined the swim club?

3- Who can attend practice from 8-10 am, Monday -Thursday.

Please click the link below to answer these question so that we can present our numbers back to the Rec/Swim board with how these changes will affect the team:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciJpCmAU...

Thank you in advance in answering these questions. Again, this is something that took us all by surprise and we hope that we can make it work where we have the Marlins this season.

Karen, Basima, Anna and Adam