[quote=Turtlicious]
Couldn't they have just done a fundraiser? See how much they could raise to try and fix everything on the pool?
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The people who can afford 200K for a pool already have their own pools. We had maybe 40 families as regular patrons, and nowhere near that kind of money.

anyway now that I think on it we did have regular 'bake sales' in progress, especially during swim meets (my brother coached for free, me and a 14-year-old girl won all the medals so he looked good, hugely popular club). All the revenue from there went straight to the pool, for all the good that did. So we were kind of already fleecing people for what we could, there wasn't much chance of getting more.