By TANIA PHILLIPS
KINGSCLIFF’s pool facilities have been given a $100,000 upgrade with local children and parents set to reap the benefits.
Tweed Mayor Barry Longland said the learn-to-swim classes in the town will be more inviting following the opening of the upgraded learners’ pool.
Swim school pupils, their parents and TRAC Kingscliff staff gathered as Cr Longland performed the official opening of the upgraded facilities, which includes an improved heating system and a new structure to enclose the pool.
Cr Longland said the teaching our children to swim was vitally important particularly in the Tweed and he believed the new facilites were part of “core business for council”.
“The upgraded structure and heater will significantly improve conditions for children learning to swim, their parents and teaching staff,” the council’s recreation services manager Stewart Brawley said.
“The eight-year-old enclosure it replaces had developed some leaks and had started letting in wind and rain.”
The opening was also attended by many of the council tradesmen who completed the project, which was undertaken entirely in-house by council staff.
“The exclusive use of council staff – and the recycling of a considerable amount of materials from the old structure – significantly reduced the cost of the project,” TRAC’s aquatic facilities supervisor Glen Nott said.
The TRAC aquatic activities supervisor Jeff Collier said the Kingscliff complex now had a learner pool facility fitting of TRAC’s growing learn-to-swim services.
“This gives us a lot more capacity to expand swim tuition activities in the Kingscliff area, to ensure more children are properly trained to be safe around water,” he said.
For more information about TRAC facilities at Kingscliff and Tweed Heads, visit trac.tweed.nsw.gov.au
