Our city of 115,000 deserves more than two aging swimming pools
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Post Bulletin Editorial Board | 8:30 am, May 8, 2021 × Like the mythical Phoenix rising, so have risen the hopes of an even brighter future for Silver Lake Pool despite this summer s previously planned closing.
So wrote Heidi Granstrom, one of the organizers of Save Our Silver Lake Pool, a citizens group that raised more than $34,000 for operational expenses to reopen Rochester s oldest pool . in 2004.
On Tuesday, the Rochester Park Board agreed with a City Council plan to pull the Silver Lake Pool out of the city budget scrap heap and operate it for one more year . at a cost of $95,000. And that doesn t include permanent fixes of the 43-year-old pool s many shortcomings.
Park Board votes to back plan initiated by Rochester City Council. 10:15 pm, May 4, 2021 ×
The Silver Lake Pool on Wednesday, September 2, 2020, in Rochester. (Andrew Link / alink@postbulletin.com)
Unanimous Rochester City Council support for reopening the Silver Lake Park pool was met with a more tepid response from the city’s Park Board on Tuesday.
“It’s a one-year fix,” said Park Board President Linnea Archer. “We are not really fixing Silver Lake pool, we are just opening it up with duct tape and Band-Aids so it is open.”
Following a 95-minute discussion, the Park Board voted 4-1 to support a plan adopted by the City Council’s proposal to spend $95,000 to reopen and operate the pool that has been closed since the end of the 2019 season.
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