Question - Were other options for changes to the pool considered?
Answer:
Throughout 2012, a Pool Task Force consisting of numerous community members guided an extensive facility review and provided multiple public consultation opportunities.
The consultations included multiple interviews with numerous community organization and stakeholder groups, on-line input opportunities, two open houses, and several days of information kiosks that were set up around town at high profile locations during which time the Pool Task Force spoke directly with hundreds of members of the public each day.
This process allowed all to consider several design concepts ranging from only minor repairs to a completely new facility and the resulting preferred concept is a direct outcome from those consultations.
The recommended design from the Pool Task Force is the project to be considered by the referendum, and it received very strong support at committee meetings, open houses and all community input opportunities.
Editor's Note -- this post inspired one person to leave the following comment which, as of this writing, yet to be answered:
So through all of this pool upgrade talk ,I'm wondering if anybody has thought of parking? Ya sure it would be great to have a pool that's bigger, better, up dated and more reliable. Where do you park in the winter time when there is a hockey or figure skating event going on? I have seen the signs all over the arena tell ing patrons to park in the back side of the arena where there is poor lighting and no direct entrance. ( you have to walk around to the front of the building) Is this a large scale expensive bandaid? Is the city and service area going to out grow this facility, if so what kind of time frame would that be projected to be?
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