Plan includes spending $95,000 on repairs and operations. 10:12 pm, May 3, 2021 ×
The Silver Lake Pool on Wednesday, September 2, 2020, in Rochester. (Andrew Link / alink@postbulletin.com)
Approval of a plan to fund another year of operations at the Silver Lake Park pool came with an added challenge Monday.
The
Rochester City Council unanimously approved spending $45,000 from its contingency funds for operations, while instructing the city’s Park Board to redirect $50,000 in improvement funds for needed repairs for startup.
“I think there’s a way here to use a couple funding options to make this manageable,” said council member Nick Campion.
The council went a step further and asked the Park Board to look at the potential for dropping fees at the city’s outdoor pools, suggesting the cost could be covered by a portion of the $17.5 million the city expects to receive through the federal American Rescue Plan.
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