The Utica Village Board will vote Monday, Jan. 8, on whether to allow a bond issue for a new near $4 million swimming pool on the May 14 primary election ballot.
The board meeting is open to the public beginning at 7 p.m. at the Utica Auditorium, 466 First Street.
Residents should receive a mailing this week detailing the proposed pool project, which is estimated to cost about $3,950,000.
Village board member Sharon Powell, who oversees the Parks and Pool committee, said the board will vote on whether to allow the committee to place the project on the May ballot, where any registered voter residing in Utica could then voice their opinion in favor of or against the village taking on debt service for the project in the form of a municipal bond.
The committee will hold a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the auditorium to present the full project.
“We want people to be able to have their questions addressed,” Powell said.
She said the committee has been working on the project for about two years and has held a few fundraisers.
The new pool would occupy the same space as the existing pool on the south side of town.
Powell said the committee also is looking at estimates to renovate the baseball fields on the north side of town to orient the home plates of the two fields back-to-back and build a new concession stand.
Lamp Rynearson, an aquatic architectural firm based in Omaha, designed the concept for the new pool.
Powell said the committee would like the issue to appear on the May ballot instead of the general election ballot next fall as residents will vote whether to renew the village’s LB840 Local Option Municipal Economic Development fund in the fall – a separate issue from the pool project.
