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City council agrees to fund pool feasibility study

Justin Addison, Editor/Publisher
Posted 3/23/21

The Fayette City Council gave unanimous approval last week to pay 40% of the cost to update a 21-year old feasibility study on the Fayette City Pool.

The contract between the city and STRATA …

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City council agrees to fund pool feasibility study

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The Fayette City Council gave unanimous approval last week to pay 40% of the cost to update a 21-year old feasibility study on the Fayette City Pool.

The contract between the city and STRATA Architecture, Inc, of Kansas City, was given the green light by the council. The city will pay 40%, or  $4,160, of the $10,400 cost. The other 60% is funded by the State Historic Preservation office.

A team from STRATA, which includes an engineer, and an architect, will examine the historic pool in the coming weeks before the basin is filled for the summer. They will then update the original feasibility study that was performed in 2000 with up-to-date cost estimates for repairs and pool upgrades. The city may then use modern figures to pursue grants from such entities as the National Parks Service.

Pam Huttsell presented the contract to the city. “As a historic preservationist, I am in full favor of (restoring the pool). But we need figures. We need data.”

Northwest Ward Alderman Pat Roll agreed that the city needs up-to-date information on the pool, but warned that pools such as what Fayette has can take millions of dollars to rehabilitate. “Once you start throwing money at this beware of where you’re going to end up,” he said. 

Fayette’s public works director Danny Dougherty expects to fill the pool in May, about a week before it opens on Memorial Day weekend. The city in the process of hiring lifeguards and a new pool manager.

The pool was shuttered the entire summer of 2020 due to the pandemic but had a high turnout in the summer of 2019.

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