Plunging into Ballot Question 1: Fund the Pool, or Not?
We moved here in 2010, and I remember hearing rumblings back then about the outdated pool but that many residents used and loved it. Not to mention that Boulder City. Has supported and home-grown some great athlete swimmers such as champion swimmer Zane Grothe, who have trained there.
But for reasons we don’t have the full back-story on, the local municipal pool is apparently beyond repair and back in 2021 a design was developed which was voted on and approved by the City Council.
The ad-hoc pool committee was formed in 2019 after a failed ballot measure which proposed a larger aquatic center with facilities beyond a pool. That ballot question contained a funding provision of a $40 million bond attached to it, and voters rejected it soundly.
One can find reference to the ideas of candidates or council members talking about improving the pool as far back as 2015.
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