Today's announcement by IndyParks that Broad Ripple Park Pool will not open is extremely disappointing. For 50 years, the pool has served as a community and city amenity where our city children could learn to swim, participate in swim teams, and more. The pool just got a new liner last summer and a new pool pump the year before. Our City residents need a place to cool off during the hot summer months. Worse, IndyParks spends its time on an unwanted and unnecessary intrusion onto 5 acres of Broad Ripple Park land to let Community Health Networks operate doctors' offices. With the COVID epidemic, is it really a good use of taxpayers money? (IndyParks will be paying $79,000 a month rent to Community Health.) This project should be put on hold pending a review of the impact of the pandemic on the need, if any, for a new family center in Broad Ripple Park.

Bill Malcolm