Pool meeting 7/16
The meeting tonight was to discuss alternatives to the bubble. But that's not where the meeting started. In a nutshell, there's concern about the ability of the town to open the pool on September 15 after the bubble gets reinflated. I gather there's a chance that either the health inspector or building inspector could close the permanent structure part of the pool... thereby closing the facility... until repairs are made.
There was someone knowledgable at the meeting discussing some ideas. But from my perspective, I just saw more $$$ for another band-aid. I don't see the point. And when it was mentioned that it was as if the Council had its "back against the wall," I said that was a result of the Council's footdragging on this for years. Regardless...
After that discussion, we got to the proposals that came about as a result of the RFP. Again, the short version: six responses, ranging in price from $4.1 million to $9.3 million.
What made no sense to me was that only one of the six responses offered an estimated savings.
There will be more meetings. And if you want real reporting, both the NHR and Herald were at the meeting tonight.
Tim White
9 comments:
any clue what the 6 proposals were?
what is the useful economic life of the replacement? Perhaps we ought to have thought about THAT before we bought a useless bubble at the front end.
Just like we should think about the economic life of artificial turf and what we will do when it needs replacing.
That is why I am asking what the proposals were. I hope there is something like a greenhouse included
huge news if they can't open the pool..what is wrong??????
Best one should be closing it!!
We have paid $2M plus for a pool we can't use in July!
The Dems sure want to torpedo the pool. Don't they have a clue that you just can't keep raising taxes to pay exhorbitant pay packages for teachers, spend $1,00,000 or more on a new high school locker room that will also be destroyed again by players and coaches, pay for a mixville pumping station and anything else that comes into their heads.
Are they going to raise the money by charging the taxpayers to use Mixville?
The Council and our PW department fumbled...again.
When you have a time sensitive project (like school construction during the summer....or getting the pool ready for the swim season)you have a solid understanding of what has to be done and you write the contract specs to make sure that the contractor gets the work done in a finite amount of time.
Our Town Engineer would have trouble building a sand castle and everyone along the line...especially the Council... has kicked the pool problems down the road hoping that somehow they will go away.
The Council has had several years to find a fix and they are still marching in circles with the meter running.
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