District 155 Reaches New Agreement for Swim Teams, Pools

Photo credit: Centegra Health Bridge Fitness website 

After the cost to renegotiate a contract for use of the the Sage YMCA pool continued to climb, District 155 officials went shopping for a new location for its swim teams to practice, according to the Northwest Herald.

Initially, the school looked at using the pools at LifeTime Fitness in Algonquin but that contract, which would have cost the school district $16,000, was denied by its corporate office, the newspaper reports.

The district’s school board has since OK’d a contract for $16,000 for two of its four teams to use four lanes at Woodstock High School during the swim season, according to the article. The other two teams will practice at Centegra Health Bridge Fitness Center in Huntley.

In total, the district will pay $38,000 for the use of the two pools, costs to transport students to Woodstock and for the use of the Sage YMCA of Metro Chicago pool for competitive meets, according to the Northwest Herald.

This is considerably cheaper than the $58,000, which was the last formal offer the district received from Sage to continue using its pool. Last year, the district payed $11,000.

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