by the Outlook’s Dave Schmidt

(8-16-25) While two presidents of the US and Russia met in Alaska yesterday…Celina has a battle between two local swim teams the Sharks and the Dolphins.

The Outlook received a clarification according to the Dolphins on the situation, but we were unable to verify the person who submitted it to post in on our site.

Below are two postings on local media sites about the situation:

Let’s face it the situation is way out-of-control…two local swim teams that allow all ages of kids compete during the summer. That’s not the problem, sure the two groups both have issues with each other, that will happen sometimes with parents wanting a program that fits their children.

Meanwhile the City of Celina officials have found a way to throw ‘gas on the fire‘ time after time, which is something this administration is really good at doing. Mumbo Jumbo is what you get during this situation, not solutions.

Celina City Council Meeting, 8/11/2025

Republican Mayor Jeff Hazel on the recent VFW donation

“There’s no cash money being appropriated. It has to be done for memo posting because the value has to go on the books for assets. That’s something that we’ve done before; when we get a gift, somebody builds something or donates a piece of equipment, we have to memo post that amount because that has to show up for insurance purposes.”

Republican Councilman Joe Wolfe

“I think it’s important that we continue this, so we don’t have the issues that we had this spring, with having two different groups, and everybody taking claim to product that (needs to) be donated to the city. If we have an issue down the road … it is city equipment, and we won’t have the issue that we had this spring.”

Safety Service director Tom Hitchcock

“That way, any donations, we’re going to use that building now to just store what any swim team can use, instead of just having it just as private people’s stuff in there.”

The City of Celina should be the ones who supplies needed equipment for the pool, not depending on a group getting donations to do their job…which after it is acquired the city claims it.

Then it was decided that swim teams would remove all private property from a city building at the pool by August 15th.

It might be time to remove some of the administration as well.