About 150 spectators came to the Lindbergh boys swim meet Tuesday to show support for the endangered Lindbergh swimming pool.

Roger Miron, Lindbergh boys and girls swim coach, sent out word before the meet calling for swimmers and parents to attend the meet as the pool faces budget issues.

“I thought it was a great turnout,” Miron said. “The whole bleacher section was pretty much full of students, parents and swimmers from Kentridge. It was a very positive thing.”

Funding the pool shifted from King County to the Renton School District in 2008. Enough funds were included in the transfer for the pool to operate through 2010.

The projection to operate the pool this school year $476,700, while fees and rentals bring in about $301,700. That leaves a difference of $175,000 for the district to come up with to keep the pool operating.

For Miron and those who work at the pool, it’s about more than just a difference of dollars and cents.

“This is forty people potentially losing their jobs,” Miron said. “This is increases in youth drownings because it takes away a facility that teaches youth how to swim… When you break it down with the risks, how can you put a dollar figure on that?”

Miron and a group of parents attended the Renton School Board meeting Wednesday and plan to attend a Feb. 25 school and district board meeting to show more support.

“We’re going to listen to see what they have to say,” he said. “We’re not just going to sit back and do nothing about this.”