recommended design<\/a> was just over $5.75 million. However, citizens also requested that the pool area be separated into two bodies of water, one for lap swimming and one for more casual family use. The change adds roughly $300,000 to the estimated total cost of the project, City Manager Austin Bleess said during the meeting.<\/p>\n“><\/p>\n
The debate<\/p>\n
Council member Simon Hughes said his major concern was ensuring the cost of the pool would be within the scope of the $6.5 million voter-approved bond. Hughes and council member Connie Rossi had concerns over the necessity of splitting the pool into separate bodies of water and adding a diving board area due to the additional cost.<\/p>\n
“My thought is there is $300,000 you can save by keeping one pool, and there’s $200,000 you can save by not having a diving board … that’s a half a million dollars saved, and I would be inclined to go that way.”<\/p>\n
Council member Jennifer McCrea said diving boards would serve as a pool attraction as well as provide another resource for local swim teams.<\/p>\n
“Jersey Village having a diving board is kind of iconic to Jersey Village,” Mayor James Singleton said. “There are not a lot of pools with a diving board, and we were definitely known for having one, and there are always lines when it’s open.”<\/p>\n
After extended discussion, McCrea put forth the motion to move forward on a two-pool design with a diving board. Singleton and Wasson supported the motion while Hughes and Rossi voted against; council member Michelle Martin was absent.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to spend money just because we can, but if this is a 50-year concept, then I would like to make the most of it as soon as we can,” council member Drew Wasson said.<\/p>\n
Next steps<\/p>\n
Bleess said the total cost of the approved design now totals just over $6 million, but the final cost could change depending on the timing of the pool’s construction and the bids submitted by contractors for the project.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey Village City Council approved moving forward on a city pool design that would feature a diving board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2626,8118,56,58,57,3293,20559,8349],"class_list":["post-159436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bond","tag-design","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jersey-village","tag-pool","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}