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<br /> Public Hearing, Lifeguards., August 3,, 1987 Page three
<br /> W. Costa: Well actually 're taking action on 1 and 3, number 2 , nor two has been in effect.
<br /> Humber one states t hat the Board of Health 'determines' that they are necessary, and that's what
<br /> we have determined 'that they are necessary.'
<br /> Ha l perp: And that is being deterrm i ned tonight. i
<br /> GRC: Right. 4
<br /> Un i dent if i ed n: Nay I ask what brought about that determ i nat i on, you sa id ,you det ermi red i t
<br /> necessary, may I ask the reason behind that determination',
<br /> Chair: Well I think we all have to recognize that we did have one tragedy in town and it perhaps
<br /> directed our thoughts to exactly.what c end i t i on s were the average in town, in regards to sw irrm i ng
<br /> pools and real iation that perhaps it night be os some assistance to further situations if there
<br /> were , these reg u I at i on s effored.
<br /> U1: Was that a public or semi-pr i gate pool?
<br /> Chair: That was at a pool used by zany and varied public people, people of the public.
<br /> W, Costa: Probably classified as a semi-public; a public pool 1s any pool for the use of the
<br /> general public, a semi-pub 1 i c pool is for bathing facilities of m3nbers and guests of motels,
<br /> health clubs,, condom i n i u-ns, apartment houses, in general, the state only exerts poo 1 s that are
<br /> residential. The one that he's speaking about is semi-public. And one of ray concerns and I'm
<br /> only speaking as a health board giber, one of my main concerns is that we're having a lot of
<br /> these buildings going up and I'm not singling any i nd i v i dua 1 one out, but ,you're having. a lot of
<br /> time sharing units go up and they have these large facilities, we have two or three in ashpee
<br /> now, I'm not sure how many but there are a lot of people, an awful lot of people that use those
<br /> facilities. They core for a weekend or a day and it has become a concern, we didn't have that
<br /> before,, and I don't thin it's going to end, I think welre going to have a few more,, that's one
<br /> of the reasons I feel we s hou 1 d have a regu 1 at i on on that. I think the , fir..,.B-. ch a i man has ex-
<br /> pressed his concern, we did have an unfortunate accident there, but, there was a lifeguard on duty
<br /> when it happened.
<br /> Chair: He was on duty but he was switching between two pools.
<br /> W. Costa: He was changing when it happened it was just a fraction of time, go i rig from here to
<br /> there. It's just than the town is growing and it's time to look into it now, I think..
<br /> JIM: What factor are ,you going to use in giving a variance., do you have a certain set of factors?
<br /> Chair: What we'll be looking for is the use of the condam i n i m, is it a c ndorn i n i in that the
<br /> people reside theme, do people rent places there on a year round basis or, is this an area where
<br /> every week , perhaps, or every two weeks theme is a charge over of use of the area, different
<br /> people coming in using it for a different perios of time. 101
<br /> U : If I interpret you correctly, if the majority were ,year round ,you would react favorably
<br /> and give the variance?
<br /> Chair: We would feel that, that was not a pool that was there to entice pop 1 e to core in and
<br /> stay for a week or so and use it mane or less as a hotel or mel,, than it was there for the ow-
<br /> ners, permanent res i dents of the area
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<br /> W. Costa: It's awfully hard, I rrrean I'm a home owner and I have a swirrming pool,, I own my home,,
<br /> ,you may own a condom i n i urn, that is your horn and, ars an individual you might 1 i k to have a pool
<br /> and that's the reason they put pools there, their are a bunch f home aw e rs that have a swirrming,
<br /> pool-, that's the way I look at it-if it was a different type of a set-up with people in and out
<br /> renting for a week and two weeks or a day here, I probab l y wouldn't think of it that way, we try
<br /> to treat condom i n i urn owners as individual hone owners and I would look at it that way myself per-
<br /> sonally that if you can afford to build ,your own hone you wouldn't have to go through this regu-
<br /> lation
<br /> regu-
<br /> 1ation 1 i ke myself, so I would sort of favor a s i tuat i ori I i ke that.
<br /> UnidentifiedWoman: can the Board of Health put this rider on the state Laws all by themselves
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