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Discussion on the capacity and expansion of the Swim for Life program

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Council Member Menin presses for details on the resumption and capacity of the Swim for Life program. Commissioner Donoghue provides information on the program's current status and recent expansion.

The program is set to resume in the fall at the beginning of the school year
In FY 2024, the program served 6,629 second graders, an increase from 5,133 in FY 2023
Council Member Menin expresses disappointment with the current capacity, stating it is insufficient

Julie Menin

0:59:53

But so when is it going to resume?

Sue Donoghue

0:59:56

So our swim for live programming will start is happening this fall.

0:59:59

It starts at the beginning of the school year.

Julie Menin

1:00:01

And at the same capacity that existed before,

Sue Donoghue

1:00:04

we hope to be able serve, as I said, in 2024, we were thrilled to be able to serve 6629 second graders.

1:00:12

We hope to be able to meet or exceed that this year.

1:00:15

So the the point and

Julie Menin

1:00:16

and why the council passed this bill was obviously to expand upon it.

1:00:20

So I mean, saying that we're gonna have do 6000 kids is simply completely and wholly insufficient.

1:00:27

I'm sorry I missed the beginning of the hearing, but we had another hearing at the same time.

1:00:31

I'm sure the chair has already done questions on this.

1:00:34

I apologize for, you know, overlapping on that.

1:00:37

But it's just you've got families who are here who lost a child because of drowning and then to see that the agency is not when we have a bill that requires the swim lessons is not doing it to the full capacity is unbelievably disappointing and upsetting.

1:00:54

So what's

Sue Donoghue

1:00:54

our council member, first of all, it wasn't expansion.

1:00:57

So from 2023 to 2024, We expanded by over a 1000 children.

1:01:03

In 2023, swim for a life served 5133 second graders.

1:01:10

In 2024, swim for life served 6629.

1:01:14

So it was an expansion of over a thousand second graders who were served through the program.

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