Dormont Pool Won't Tinker With Closings This Season

won’t tinker with its pool operating procedures this year.

Several items were on Tuesday’s agenda meeting for discussion, but they went over like a painful belly flop with the audience and some council members.

Among the ideas: closing the pool by 2 p.m. if $200 hadn’t been made and allowing the manager to close the pool if weather.com forecast a 75 percent chance of rain.

“This is Pittsburgh. It’s always in the forecast,” resident Monique Fontaine said.

“We can’t be Chicken Little here,” Councilman Drew Lehman said. “You can’t close it just because there’s going to be a storm.”

Audience members were also concerned about the impact on the summer day care program, which includes trips to the pool.

Councilman John Maggio said the proposal did not take into account the possible bad reputation that could spread were someone to drive from outside the area only to find the pool unexpectedly closed.

He suggested simply calling Green Tree and Mount Lebanon’s pools to see what they were planning to do if bad weather moved in.

Ian McMeans, the assistant borough manager, said the ideas were compiled because the manager had wanted some guidance.

But in the end, council tabled doing anything this year, but said they would revisit ideas ahead of next year’s pool season.

In other pool news, the Friends of Dormont Pool purchased six walkie-talkies for $225 for the lifeguards.