Saturday, March 06, 1999
Fixing pool gets a lot cheaper
Y, Lindner helping Silverton
BY ALLEN HOWARD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SILVERTON — The city, which feared it would not open its swimming pool because of a $96,000 repair bill, may only have to spend $827 to get the job done.
Council approved a motion Thursday night that allows the city to make a proposal to the Blue Ash YMCA to manage the pool, make minimum repairs and take care of the cost of operation for $49,324.
The proposal, based on figures the YMCA submitted to the city, is contingent on local financier Carl H. Lindner kicking in $40,000, as he did last year.
Nasse Chachoff, chairman of parks and recreation, said Mr. Lindner has told the city if it wants the money, it can have it.
Mr. Chachoff presented the proposal, which faced a wave of questions from other council members.
Former Silverton Mayor Art Hackett referred to the YMCA's estimated cost of $1,900 to make minimum repairs to bring it in shape for operation as “ludicrous.”
Mr. Chachoff agreed but said he was submitting the figures as they were presented to him by the YMCA.
The YMCA managed the pool last year and ran a summer camp in the park where the pool is located.
The proposal also calls for the YMCA to handle the sale of pool passes and memberships, projected to bring in $8,497, a figure based on last year's receipts.
With Mr. Lindner's gift and the revenue from pool passes and membership, the city is left with an $827 deficit.
“We will hire the YMCA to manage the pool and the city will be completely out of it, except we still own it,” Mr. Chachoff said.
Councilman Lintonio Burke questioned the arrangement with the YMCA, particularly on who would be liable should something major happen to the pool.
“If the YMCA enters into an agreement to manage the pool at this figure, it should be liable should there be additional cost,” Mr. Burke said.
According to Mr. Chachoff, they only need approval from the YMCA and a positive response on a questionnaire being sent to Silverton residents this weekend.
“We need to know exactly how much support we can get from the residents before we go forward with this,” said Councilwoman Carrie McLemore-Walker.
The city is asking for information such as number of adults in a family and ages of children.
Once council gets responses to the questionnaire, it will vote on opening or closing the pool on March 18. If approved, the pool will open from June 21 to Aug. 15.
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