Please visit http://www.missionbayaquaticcenter.com/takeaction.htm to show your support for The Mission Bay Aquatic Center by sending a message to the San Diego City Council to approve the Mission Bay Aquatic Center’s lease. It’s a great place that offers tons of programs. Your support will help the MBAC continue doing what they do for another 25 years.
Info from the MBAC: The Mission Bay Aquatic Center is an educational program that has been jointly operated by the Associated Students of San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego on Santa Clara Point since 1964 with a long-term lease since 1975. Efforts to seek approval for a new lease following more than 9 years negotiations were recently completed by the City’s Real Estate Assets Department and the lease is now proceeding to the City Council.
The Center has a proven and undisputed track record of quality service to a diverse cross-section of the San Diego community for the past 44 years that has included under-served youth, persons with disabilities, school programs, camp programs and extensive educational offerings to university students, faculty, staff and alumni, and members of the general public.
The universities renovated a dilapidated old boathouse, dock and seawall that the City could not afford to operate and transformed it into the world renowned facility that it is today. Proposed changes in the new lease will for the first time provide rent to the City for all non-collegiate users including use by members of the general public. Additionally, the universities’ student programs have agreed to invest over $430,000 for a new solar photovoltaic generating system and family restroom. The solar photovoltaic system will generate 100% of the Center’s yearly electrical use and over the life of the system prevent over 4,000,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. The family restroom will provide private facilities for persons with disabilities and parents with children.
Show your support at http://www.missionbayaquaticcenter.com/takeaction.htm
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It’s amazing