Swimming Pools On Last Leg

Below:  Highlights of a discussion regarding the swimming pools.

Council President, David Miller:  “Realistically, how much life is left in that pool?”

Service Director, Jim Anderson:  “At Bexley?”

David Miller:  “Yes.”

Jim Anderson:  “Not much.  The sand filters are rusted, the metal, we needed to replace the sand filters.  We need to replace the pumps, the motors, the boilers, the heaters are old.  I mean there’s a lot of issues with the pool.  The pool’s cracked on the bottom, the decking’s failing" … "We’ve been patching them every year.  Some of the walls, the dividing walls that caved in we had to rebuild the bricks on it.  Over the last couple of years we’ve done it in-house; but they’re old.”  

Finance Director, Joe Filippo:  “My suggestion you get a committee going like right after budgets are over and start having a plan to do something with those pools.  Don’t wait till September, October, November”… “a recreation committee just for a serious look at what we need to do with these pools.”

David Miller:  “So, worst case scenario, come June when kids get out of school, get ready to hit the pools; we have a hot summer.  Worst case scenario is that our pools could die.”

Jim Anderson:  “We’ve had problems the last two years with opening.  I know at Bexley last year the expansion joint, there’s like a big expansion joint; it failed.  So we had to drain the pool, pull it out and replace it.  And we had to have a company come in and re-grind the whole pool because there was so many leaks and it’s concrete you know, it’s kinda failing underneath.”

At-large Councilperson Marty Gelfand:  “It sounds like all this talk is leading to a discussion we need to have about a pool levy.”

Ward 4 Councilperson Jane Goodman:  “We passed the road levy…part of the road levy promise was…”

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