Posted: July 5th, 2007

Channel 7 reports on the closed Olympic size pool at the new $168 million Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in park-poor Central L.A. because neither the City nor the school district have paid for lifeguards. Lifeguards make $13.08 per hour and the City has 700 lifeguards. We agree with the Downtown News editorial: “Find the funds. Open the pool. Stop the excuses. Give the community what it deserves this summer.”

Read the Downtown News editorial and story and hear the podcast on Warren Olney’s Which Way L.A.