As the School Board works to finalize a balanced FY16 budget, one thing has been confirmed…
Arness: “I want to make clear there is no part of that conversation that includes closing any pools.”
School Board President Joe Arness said the District does need to find a way to run the pools more effectively, but the public has spoken and the pools will stay open.
Arness: “Currently the best estimate, and it is an estimate because the largest expense in a pool is heating it and those pools are not metered separately so we don’t have a hard dollar amount of what it costs us to keep those pools warm, but the best estimate that we’ve been able to come up with is about an $800,000 a year deficit to operate the, I believe, it’s 5 pools in the district.”
Arness said they’ll explore how to use the pools in the most economic way without affecting services to the brick and mortar classrooms.
