Wading pool opening costs estimated
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JANESVILLE — Reopening Riverside Park Wading Pool could cost $62,000, city staff estimate.
The cost to operate the pool is estimated at $30,000.
Opening is schedule for Saturday, June 28.
The council closed the pool in 2002 to save money. Since then, public sentiment has grown to reopen the pool.
On Monday, the city council will be asked to borrow money to repair the pool and to take the operating costs from the city’s contingency fund.
Mike Williams, leisure services director, in a memo listed the following mechanical repairs and equipment replacement:
-- Caulk, power wash, paint and repair the 70-year-old concrete pool vessel—$14,000.
-- Build a fence—$4,500.
-- Repair the mechanical system. The filters are in good condition but a new sand medium is needed at $1,000. Staff wants to raise the motors and pumps to eliminate a sump pump. The new pumps, with associated plumbing and electrical work, would cost $18,500. Replacing the chlorination system from liquid to tablets would cost $4,000. Total—$23,500.
-- Replace underground piping—$12,000.
-- Buy maintenance and safety equipment, such as first aid supplies, a water test kit, signs, rescue equipment and lifeguard chairs—$2,500.
-- 10 percent contingency—$5,650.
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May 14, 2008 at 4:39 p.m.
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where do they get this estimate from.!!!!?????? it isnt that big.
May 10, 2008 at 12:38 p.m.
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WTP - "helping a few hundred kids," and their "few hundred" parents is a good thing.
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I also think it is a good thing that buses are heavily subsidized for the few dozen that ride them, or the handicapped vans that get people out into the public for the very few who need them.
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So if you are average age, healthy, with kids in a good neighborhood, access to your own transportation and maybe even a pool in your backyard, then you are doing well.
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But others need options.
May 10, 2008 at 11:07 a.m.
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wtp; could you please post more info on the fund raiser for the skate park, sounds like fun for the family. I know the city needs to do maintance on the pool, because it has sat so long. I wish they would sell off some of the lots that they call parks, the ones that have no equipment but they mow and maintain. The sale money and maintance savings would be enough to make up the difference for riverside park.
May 10, 2008 at 9:10 a.m.
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It is amazing that the city can spend this kind of money on a project that can only be used to the most 60 day of the year. I bet only a few hundred kids will use it. Yet they will not spend any money on a skate park for thousands of kids to use 10 to 12 months of the year. The same holds true for the proposed baseball diamond that only organized games can be played on it. Again only a few hundred kids will ever use it. Skate boarding and BMX biking is a 1 on 1 sport and can be done all hours of the day and evening. There is no better sport a child or adult can participate in to keep them occupied and off the streets and getting into trouble. I understand there is skate park fund raiser coming up on Saturday May 24. It is a all day band fest with various bands from all over Wisconsin. I saw a poster saying it will only cost $5.00 to attend. Inform your young adult about this entertainment at the fair grounds to support the skate park.
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