We asked you to vote on whether you felt that the town should move forward with a $3.4 million renovation of the Town pool. This pool is located a Kreigh Park. Your vote was split:
- 42% For
- 40% Nay
- 16% did not know that Oro Valley had a town pool.
Funding for the remodeling will be from three sources:
- $400,000 in parks and recreation impact fees
- $500,000 in bed-tax fund cash reserve
- $2.55 million in bond proceeds
Being a world-class town means that sometimes we need to spend a buck on important recreational facilities. This pool is important as it can be a centerpiece for swimming athletics in the north part of the county.
Your vote was close, but the Council was not. It was unanimously in favor.
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ReplyDeleteI would gladly give the $40K wasted on TREO to the pool project. When TREO funding is placed on next years agenda, I hope it is voted down.
ReplyDeleteNombe....Why?
ReplyDeleteI question the pool expenditure only on the grounds that we appear to not be willing to charge the users sufficient money to make this the pool a break even project. Somewhere in leadership is a thought process that pool should be subsidized by the taxpayers. I disagre with that.
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ReplyDeleteShould like this charge users a fair fee?
Should that fair fee have a reasonable relationship to the cost of operating the facility.
Otherwise, isn't this simply another form of subsidizing. In this case, the town is subsidizing the probably less than 5% of the population that use the pool.
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