Doubts over swim club-aquatic center deal
Photo credit: Photo by James Escher | Dave Ferris is director of the nonprofit Long Island Swimming, which has struck a tentative deal with Nassau County to install and operate an Olympic-size pool on county land next to the Nassau Aquatic Center. (May 4, 2011)
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A tentative deal allowing a nonprofit swim club to install and operate an Olympic-size pool on county land next to the Nassau Aquatic Center, which is shutting down for an overhaul, is raising new questions about the private use of public property.
Long Island Swimming Ltd., an elite training organization, was the sole bidder for the project. The president of the group, David Ferris, resigned...
