text: So I went to the Lincoln YMCA very excited to become a member because i wanted to use their pool and take yoga classes nnI work as a substitute teacher and live in a very tight budget but a family member has offered to pay for my monthly membership nnI walked up to the front desk and told the young lady that i wanted to be a member and she said it would be to join unless i worked for and listed off some businesses if i worked for them the would be waived I asked her why the people that worked for said businesses got special treatment and she said that those businesses had made deals with them I explained to her my situation and told her i had read the mission statement stating that no one was turned away because of their inability to pay and her response was It is to join and I cannot waive that I told her that i could not afford an extra on top of the a month and she just shrugged her shoulders She then walked away and started helping someone else offering no other options or solutionsnnI emailed the valley of the sun YMCA website and they said they would contact the Lincoln center and have them get back to me No one ever got back to mennI guess this particular YMCA is really more interested in being a recreation center for ASU then being a community resource