GHS Natatoruim, Access Driveway & Tennis (NAT) Building Committee Coming Together

The Building Committee for the Greenwich High School Natatorium, Access Driveway and Tennis project is beginning to take shape.  Seven volunteers were appointed by the Board of Selectmen.  Five out of the seven were approved by the Representative Town Meeting last month. Two others will be voted on at the RTM’s October meeting next week.

The five members receiving approval from the full RTM were Jeffrey Aser, Paul Constantin, Diane Chiappetta Fox, Dan Raffe and Jacqueline Nicole Sanderson. 

The appointees awaiting RTM approval are Kaan Aslansan and Steven Siler.

The seven appointments were referred to RTM’s Appointments, Education and Public Works Committees.

None of the five newly voted members or the two remaining nominees served on the project’s Feasibility Committee.

After the Building Committee’s is fully staffed, it can hold its first organizational meeting, elect officers and develop a meeting schedule. 

The current GHS pool has been plagued by leaks and emergency access issues, though safety clearances for divers and code-compliant drains and infrastructure have also been areas of concern.

According to the projects Education Specifications, “Providing secondary vehicular access from Route 1 has been a longstanding community goal and has been discussed for at least a decade.”

Specs for the project were developed by AECOM and Antinozzi Associates as well as other consultants for the Feasibility Committee.  They were approved by the Board of Education in June.

In addition to the GHS Physical Education curriculum, which includes aquatics and lifeguarding classes for students, the pool is utilized by the girls and boys swimming and diving teams as well as the boys and girls water polo teams.  The tennis courts, which are nearing the end of their useful life, are utilized by the boys and girls varsity and junior varsity tennis team.