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Commission agrees to advance pool work; city will use LPRF and repurposed CDBG funds for recreation complex
Summary
City staff presented three scopes for the Sweetwater recreation complex and recommended starting design work for pool filtration and plumbing; commissioners agreed to authorize design work and to include a broader list of items in a CDBG scope-change request.
City Manager Jessica (last name not specified) and Sam, the architect of record on the recreation project, presented updated scopes and funding for a pool and broader recreation-complex project after the board previously reallocated Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from a community center to the recreation project.
Jessica said the city combined the original Land and Water Conservation Fund (LPRF) grant of about $1.1 million with the repurposed CDBG allocation and other local commitments to create roughly $2.2 million in available funding; Sam presented three scope options that together add up to about $2.6 million, leaving a gap unless items from the expanded scope are cherry-picked.
Sam told commissioners the pool’s mechanical systems are roughly 50 years old and that contractors recommended addressing filtration, pumps and perimeter piping while the pool surface is being repaired. He said design for stamped engineering drawings would cost about $17,500 (DWR Aquatics) and that equipment-and-installation estimates for filtration and piping are separate line items in the proposal. Sam urged getting the engineering and at least firm design pricing before resurfacing so a new surface is not followed immediately by plumbing failure.
Jessica said the Tennessee LPRF program will allow the city to bid and begin pool work separately so the pool could be opened next summer even if some bathhouse items are delayed; portable restrooms would be one interim option if bathhouse work lags. She summarized the staff recommendation: authorize DWR Aquatics to start the design phase for the filtration and pool systems (scope 2), submit a CDBG scope-change request that includes a longer list of optional scope-3 items for consideration, and pursue bids after the required environmental review is complete (estimated 4–6 weeks).
Commissioners voiced no opposition to moving forward on scope 2 engineering and agreed staff should put scope 3 items into the CDBG change request without promising finish work under CDBG. Jessica emphasized that scope 1 and scope 2 would consume the grant money currently available and that scope 3 items, if not funded by grants, could be handled later through the capital-improvement plan.
Action and next steps: by consensus commissioners asked staff to authorize DWR Aquatics to proceed with engineering/design of pool mechanical and filtration systems, to continue environmental review, to prepare the CDBG scope-change request including optional items for scope 3, and to bid pool work as soon as environmental clearance and design pricing are available.
