City officials keep new pool vision alive
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The plans include: a new pool, a bath house, admissions, concessions and chemical storage buildings; restrooms for the Jungle Jym playground; a new sidewalk to the tennis courts; a future sand volleyball court; paved handicapped access and improvements to the asphalt.
Specific water features include: three slides (two for smaller children); a “zero-depth” or sloping pool entry; a 25-meter, eight-lane section; a diving area with three boards located over water 13-feet deep featuring a half meter, one meter and three meter boards and several water features that include rain drops, tumble buckets, spray cannons, lemon drops and raining umbrellas.
A children’s frog slide is also anticipated.
The proposed outdoor pool, which got a preliminary nod from members of the Parks and Recreation Committee Monday, is similar to the outdoor pool in the defeated $5.5 million bond referendum. The outdoor pool is also similar to the Jimmy Floyd Family Center’s outdoor pool in Lebanon.
City officials have said the outdoor pool will have technical aspects such as plumbing or piping that would more easily allow for the addition of a future indoor pool. Llewellyn said the area directly behind the rear of the Civic Center, where the indoor pool was expected to be constructed, will be fenced in to allow for a potential sunning area for the outdoor pool.
Llewellyn is preparing a financing plan that is expected to be voted on by the full Board of Mayor and Aldermen before the new outdoor pool is realized.
Officials said Monday they plan to pursue capital outlay notes, which are required to be paid off in much less time than a typical bond issue. Officials also said while bond issues are subject to referendum, capital outlay notes are not.