By Gazette Staff
March 12th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
A small error on our part.
The swimmers training in Barcelona are from the BAD youth program (teens) not adults. Our error
It is a sign that despite everything that happened last year, the BAD Youth program is thriving.
The Burlington Aquatic Devilrays appreciate the work done by the City Auditor, but believe it leaves key questions unanswered.
They have identified gaps in the analysis that they believe haven’t been fully addressed; they intend to continue working with the City to resolve them.
Their concerns relate to the overall scope of the audit and certain procedural aspects of the process. The BAD leadership is still in active conversation with the City on a path forward.
This issue isn’t going away despite what the Mayor has said.
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Re: Aquatic Space Allocation Audit (Internal)
I’m glad to hear that BAD is moving forward with their dispute with the City of Burlington. At the end of the day, BAD is a Burlington run organization and must be supported by Burlington.
I watched this discussion between the city auditor and council at the Regular Meeting of Council on March 10th. And there are still alot of unanswered questions and details on how this RFP Application process was handled by both City Staff and Burlington Council!
It appears from what I heard and read re the Internal Audit presented to council, that the RFP Application and process was lacking on description details, mandatory registrant requirements (i.e. 85% of the organization’s participants live in Burlington) and the process.
The RFP Application and process must be redrafted and updated now so this does not happen again.
This whole process and loss of Burlington Pool Time has been such a huge disappointment for all of the Burlington swimmers and teams that train and participate with the Burlington Aquatic Devilrays!
There was a 5-2 vote to pass the “Aquatic Space Allocation Audit” with only 2 members, Lisa Kearns Ward 2 and Shawna Stolte Ward 4 opposing it.
Burlington residents should read and watch this video posted on the City of Burlington, Council Meeting Calendar held on March 10, 2026 at cityofburlington.ca