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Scottsdale oversight panel recommends canceling El Dorado Pool solar/canopy project over poor payback
Summary
After reviewing alternatives and cost estimates for El Dorado Pool (project 41), the committee voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council cancel the project and reallocate the bond funds because projected payback is prohibitively long.
The Citizens Bond Oversight Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council cancel Bond 2019 project 41—an El Dorado Pool solar installation—and reallocate the funding to other projects, after staff presented a revised scope and payback analysis.
Principal project manager Roger (as identified in the transcript) told the committee that the bond project’s original scope—installing a ground‑mounted solar water‑heating system based on a 2010 vendor proposal—would require about 21,000 square feet…
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