Cost Cutting

Our crack Massillon Review research team has been investigating how the Massillon City schools can cut costs and save money.

We believe the Massillon School Board can save money by closing Paul Brown Tiger Stadium.

Just think of the cost cutting. No electric to light the lights. No maintenance and upkeep.

Besides, we have a perfectly good football stadium just three miles up the road at Perry.

Our kids can practice and play when Perry isn't using it.

We can tear down Paul Brown Stadium and create additional, much needed parking for the high school.

Call it consolidation. Or regionalization.

No?

Bad idea?

So is closing the Bob Wherry Natatorium.

It will devastate our youth swimming programs and end the Massillon Aquatic Club (MAC).

It will end the elementary swim program.

And the Tiger Sharks?

They can swim at the Y - When no one else is using the pool.

Massillon's Diva in Residence, Superintendent Lisa Carmichael, wants to close the Administration building, and with it the natatorium, under the guise of cost cutting.

She and the rest of the administration will then be able to move into nicer offices, office space which will befit a school superintendent.

What the swim program needs, quite honestly, is a reorganization of the athletic department.

Let's make the head swim coach the athletic director, and the assistant swim coach the assistant athletic director.

Then swimming will move to the top of the athletic department pyramid.

And the natatorium will stay open.

It will be interesting to see how our Commander In Chief, President Weinberg, comes down on this issue.

Our guess is that he and the Superintendent will be seeing eye to eye on this one.

It isn't football.

Weinberg won't give a damn.