{"id":368523,"date":"2026-08-11T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368523\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:31:03","slug":"hialeah-mayor-closes-citys-public-pools-claims-5m-needed-after-years-of-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368523\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah mayor closes city\u2019s public pools, claims $5M needed after years of neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BYYNPFRYBBFNVLQJMPB3O4L3QU.png\"  width=\"1458\" height=\"820\"\/>SKY 10 flies over The Milander, a public pool, on Tuesday in Hialeah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 The mayor of Hialeah announced on Tuesday that he was temporarily closing the city\u2019s public pools and keeping a water park closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mayor Bryan Calvo said he wants an expert to conduct a \u201ccomprehensive, independent review\u201d of the facilities\u2019 conditions and the city\u2019s aquatics operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen information came to my attention that raised additional questions about our aquatics operations, I made the decision to act immediately,\u201d Calvo, 28, said in a statement released on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before reopening, Calvo plans to correct the findings of the review and make renovations, according to the city\u2019s statement\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> \u201cThe condition of many of Hialeah\u2019s aquatic and park facilities reflects years of deferred maintenance and neglect that this administration is now confronting head-on,\u201d Calvo said, adding that he asked the commission \u201cto help find us $5 million to renovate and modernize these facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Here is the list of the city\u2019s pools:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM Updated:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandSKY 10 flies over The Milander,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-368523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}