Parks & Rec Buildings
1020 S Woodlawn AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/11/2024
What are the safety protocols for lifeguards on duty? There are two lifeguards on duty for the main pool at 2:30 pm, but the elevated chairs designed for lifeguards to easily scan the pool are empty. Instead, both lifeguards are seated together, chatting on the staff bench. There are easily 60+ people at the Bryan Park Pool now and plenty of small children.
Until this weekend, lifeguards at Bryan Park Pool used the elevated chairs all summer and rotated frequently.
Follow-up to #192811: https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=192811
Parks & Rec Buildings
1020 S Woodlawn AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/10/2024
Does the City of Bloomington/Parks and Rec have a lifeguard:patron ratio that they implement? As of 1:30 pm, there are about 30 people in the main pool (not including the deep end) and only one lifeguard on duty. This lifeguard was seated in an oversight chair on the south side of the pool. When I asked the four off-duty lifeguards about the ratio, one told me that only a single lifeguard was sufficient for the whole pool for the number of patrons. He also indicated that they did not need to close off the west end of the pool to reduce the scan area for the lone lifeguard. However, after that, he did ask the seated lifeguard to go down to ground level to scan the pool.
Parks & Rec Buildings
1020 S Woodlawn AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/11/2024
What are the safety protocols for lifeguards on duty? There are two lifeguards on duty for the main pool at 2:30 pm, but the elevated chairs designed for lifeguards to easily scan the pool are empty. Instead, both lifeguards are seated together, chatting on the staff bench. There are easily 60+ people at the Bryan Park Pool now and plenty of small children.
Until this weekend, lifeguards at Bryan Park Pool used the elevated chairs all summer and rotated frequently.
Follow-up to #192811: https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=192811
Parks & Rec Buildings
1020 S Woodlawn AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2024
How does Bloomington determine the appropriate lifeguard-patron ratio for the city's public pools? How often is a responsible staff member actively evaluating safety needs during the course of the pool hours? (Seeking an actual response, as I notice that recent U-reports asking this question have been closed despite zero answers.)
On August 10-11, there was an alarming disconnect between lifeguards and actual use of the facility. Despite a hot, sunny weekend with dozens of patrons in and around the main pool (including plenty of small children), there was only a single lifeguard on duty sitting on the ground level staff bench for the **entire main pool**. At least on Aug 17-18, the west end of the main pool was closed, reducing by half the active scan area for the single on duty lifeguard.
It would be terrible to have a safety emergency at the city pools worsened by underestimating the need for lifeguards on duty.
Parks & Rec Buildings
2100 S Henderson ST
- Case Date:
- 8/22/2024
There pothole in parking lots I make u report to street department street staff tell me Parking lots are maintained by the property owners. potholes need fix people be felling of potholes
Parks & Rec Buildings
2301 S Highland Ave
- Case Date:
- 7/26/2024
There are several unhoused men living at the shelter at the Winslow Woods Park between the community gardens and the playground. They have been there for weeks. They left for a day and are back, now with a friend and his dogs. They burn wood in the grill day and night, never leave, and have a car packed with their belongings. They have taken over picnic tables as beds. No one else can use the shelter and it feels unsafe. Running them off for one day is not solving this problem. I do not feel safe going to the community gardens and orchard alone any longer. Why are they allowed to literally camp there? Please make this playground, shelter, and garden area safe again.
Parks & Rec Buildings
2350 W Bloomfield Rd
- Case Date:
- 7/10/2024
Smoking marijuana in the parking lot after softball games currently 8:50 PM on Wednesday. Team shirt has Bloomington on it with something with red stripe below. It bald headed guy younger guy with a mustache short beard and even more passing around the group also very young children were present baby and car seat or carrier. #18 #55.
Plate. IU2616. Black Chevy Colorado
And drinking several beers a piece
Parks & Rec Buildings
2350 W Bloomfield Rd
- Case Date:
- 7/10/2024
Smoking marijuana in the parking lot after softball games currently 8:50 PM on Wednesday. Team shirt has Bloomington on it with something with red stripe below. It bald headed guy younger guy with a mustache short beard and even more passing around the group also very young children were present baby and car seat or carrier. #18 #55.
Plate. IU2616. Black Chevy Colorado
And drinking several beers a piece
Parks & Rec Buildings
2350 W Bloomfield Rd
- Case Date:
- 7/11/2024
Smoking marijuana in the parking lot after softball games currently 8:50 PM on Wednesday. Team shirt has Bloomington on it with something with red stripe below. It bald headed guy younger guy with a mustache short beard and even more passing around the group also very young children were present baby and car seat or carrier. #18 #55.
Plate. IU2616. Black Chevy Colorado
And drinking several beers a piece
Parks & Rec Buildings
674-700 West 2nd Street
- Case Date:
- 4/6/2016
Hi There, A chunk of shingles has blown off the bathroom building in Building and Trades Park. It can wait 'till tomorrow...not an emergency!
Jaclyn Ray