The Chico Area Recreation and Park District board voted unanimously to close the Shapiro Pool next to Chico Junior High School. The Chico Unified School District leases the pool to CARD for free, but the school district doesn't want to maintain the pool. The Shapiro pool was built in the 1950s and has an outdated filtering system that is reportedly difficult to maintain. 

Swim programs that were held at the Shapiro pool will now take place at the Pleasant Valley pool next to Bidwell Junior High School.