Nope, this place does not listen to its residents. Remember the Buffalo, the indoor pool, fireworks on the 4 of July, the town squares staying open until midnight on New year's eve, Relay for Life. I always say those were the good old days.
I've served on a committee going on 8 years trying to get a real gym in here. We were always told it was coming and I'm sure under Harold and probably Gary, we would have it by now. There are many groups who need a real gym for their sport or activity. Plus its too hot to play outdoors most of the summer. We even offered to build it on our dime and showed them it could be a money maker. It wouldn't take that much to put in a gym floor in one of the closed restaurants. You should see the many church halls outside the Villages we use for our sports clubs. Believe me if a small church can build an all purpose gym/hall, the powers here could. It was only this last year we got the big "no", never.
What I've learned is all the residents and petitions won't change a thing. Mornings at the little exercise rooms in the regional rec centers have a line waiting for them to open during the high season. The grass root workers tried to get these places to close an hour earlier and open an hour earlier. Told they couldn't because the cheap little sign with hours was already made!!! Then one day, new signs, new hours!! Right now the gym at Laurel Manor is closed for 9 days when it has two outside doors and bathrooms. We all understand that they needed to close the main building but why not leave the gym open???We have done that before.
So I say the new powers that be- do not listen. That's why they lost a lawsuit. However, I also know that someone out there can get things changed. ( Like the hours on the exercise rooms.)
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