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Berwyn advisory committee launches review of rec-center pool, seeks engineering assessment and community input
Summary
A newly seated Berwyn advisory committee met March 19 to begin scoping options for the city’s sole public pool: members agreed to gather facility-condition data, pursue a professional structural assessment, and plan multilingual community outreach before recommending next steps to city council.
Ald. Micah Caldwell, first-ward alderman and chair of Berwyn’s Pool Feasibility and Design Exploration Ad Hoc Committee, opened the group’s March 19 meeting and framed its task as an advisory review to evaluate options for the city’s recreation-center pool, including design concepts, partnership opportunities and funding approaches.
The nine-member committee — composed of city aldermen, a park-district commissioner, recreation staff and community members — agreed that the first priorities are collecting baseline facility information and securing a professional engineering or structural assessment to determine whether the existing pool is salvageable or should be replaced. "This is the start of a lot of work to ... figure out what direction we're…
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