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Sheridan highlights $5.4 million pool rebuild, plans June reopening
Summary
City staff told council the long-running pool renovation — first built in 1937 — was completed after procurement and value-engineering lowered costs from an initial $10.7 million bid to about $5.4 million; a grand opening is planned for early June.
The Sheridan City Council heard a detailed update Wednesday on the recently rebuilt municipal pool, which city staff said originally opened in 1937 and has been a local landmark for decades. Project engineer David Ford told the council the city conducted a condition assessment in 2014 and a 2019 community survey that rated renovation or rebuild of the pool as a top priority.
Ford said the city opened construction bids in February and received a single bid of about $10.7 million. "Through the VE process, the staff, our engineer, and the contractor, we were able to award the selected alternatives that we wanted," Ford said, describing a reduction in scope and final project funding that brought the award to about $5.4 million.
"This is your cap tax at work, your GPET public benefit, and then a land water conservation grant," Ford said, listing the funding sources the city used for the project. He described the design as keeping the pool in the same footprint while adding a lap pool, an activity pool, three slides, a new mechanical building and a new drop-off/short-term parking loop.
Ford took council through construction highlights, including installation of a stainless-steel gutter system, a welded PVC liner over concrete, and new mechanical systems. He said the activity pool includes a required UV sanitation system and noted the plant equipment includes two boilers (one 1.5 million BTU and another 2,000,000 BTU). Ford also said the project salvaged original brick and tile from the historic bathhouse and kept the building’s exterior.
Unanticipated conditions raised costs during construction: Ford said crews found failing storm sewer under decking that required replacement, installed a sump system to address hillside leach across Beaver Street, adjusted electrical service routing and removed a few trees. He told council the project has used roughly 98% of its budget, with remaining finish work scheduled for spring.
Council asked whether earlier reports of a leak in the activity pool had been resolved; Ford said testing and inspections showed settling and other issues but no sustained leak. "Our contractor and our our engineer are pretty confident we do not have a leak," he said.
Alex Mach, president of the recreation district, told council the district plans to keep access affordable but expects a modest price increase tied to a roughly 10% drop in the district’s property tax revenue. "The fees will go up slightly," Mach said, attributing the change to the district’s revenue shortfall.
Ford said the city anticipates final completion in April with startup in June. Staff and the recreation district are planning a grand opening for Saturday, June 6, coordinated with local events and district programming.
The presentation concluded with the council thanking staff and contractors for the work and the project moving forward to operational preparations with the recreation district.
