Swimming pool plan tops agenda
Source: Worcester Telegram (Original Article)
Swimming pool plan tops agenda
Nick Kotsopoulos City Hall Notebook
nkotsopoulos@telegram.com
Nick Kotsopoulos City Hall Notebook
nkotsopoulos@telegram.com
The City Council Youth, Parks and Recreation Committee will meet today to take up City Manager Michael V. O’Brien’s recommendation that it borrow $1.6 million to finance the first stage of the city’s aquatics investment plan.
The loan order, part of Mr. O’Brien’s five-year capital improvement program, is intended to address the aging and deteriorated condition of the nine municipal swimming pools, most of which were built between 1968 and 1973 and have had little money invested in their maintenance and upkeep.
“This year, we must make a significant move to address our aging pool facilities and their deferred maintenance over the last 30 years due to budget strife,” Mr. O’Brien said.
“An extensive and comprehensive review of our existing facilities confirms what we have long known; these aging structures are in need of significant and costly upgrades if we are to provide our community with safe and usable aquatics facilities,” he said. “We must look at history as a guide and we must rebuild only what we can afford to maintain over their useful life.”
In addition to recommending an unprecedented $1.6 million for the swimming pools in fiscal 2009, Mr. O’Brien’s five-year capital improvement program calls for subsequent recommendations of $2 million per fiscal year through fiscal 2013.
The manager said that would bring the total investment in the city’s pools and parks to $9.6 million over five years, with a vast majority of that money dedicated to the public pools.
After taking up the manager’s recommendation, the council committee intends to visit swimming pool The King of Queens dvd sites.
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