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Originally Posted by mrbgull
The problem is only three monitors for the entire area ?????? Let's play smart
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Where does the information come from that there are only three monitors for the "entire area". And by the entire area, do you mean the entire Villages?
We only use a few pools, but there is usually someone at the Paradise pool that checks IDs. He often doesn't bother to ask us because he knows me personally. I asked a monitor at the South Side pool once about why there is no one there and he said that they check every three hours.
I find it hard to believe that there are only three monitors for the entire Villages and they have one posted at the Paradise pool for much of the time. If I recall, there are about fifty pools in the Villages.
As far as checking every one's ID when they do come to a pool including those in the pool, I would hate to be dragged out of the pool to show my ID every time I go for a swim. You be punishing the 99% of us who are legally there to catch the 1% that shouldn't be there.
An electronic card system would be good, but who knows what the cost would be and how much would it impact our amenity fees? Also some people, who are able, might simply hop the fence.
I guess The Villages would have to keep some kind of record of how many intruders they catch at the pools and extrapolate that to determine how big of a problem it really is. The other thing that a gate system wouldn't do would be to keep underage people out of the neighborhood pools.
The only answer, if this is a significant problem, is to have someone at every pool to check everyone's ID as they come in. What would the cost of that be? I really don't want to see my amenity fee raised if we don't have a real significant problem.