Make the county do its job(s) - swim pools

Besides the pending new King County requirement for cities to prosecute some felonies (if the people are going to get them prosecuted at all,) King County has in the past foisted other of its responsibilities onto the cities (without, of course, passing on any of the revenues allowed by the state for fulfilling those responsibilities.) I am thinking of the decision several years ago to defund the Forward Thrust Swimming Pools that the county built (with our money) many years ago and then neglected the maintenance of. Now those pools are in sad state of repair which would necessitate huge expenditures to refurbish. Mt. Rainier Pool in Des Moines has for the past several years been funded by several of the local cities and the Highline School District. With the tight budgets we have, we can not really afford this but certainly can not afford the refurbishment of the pool to keep it running safely. Thus the home pool of our local several time state championship swim team will probably close its doors, not only to the swim team but also to the public. The only benefit was to the county executive and the council which balanced their budget on the budgets of the local cities.