The Parks and Leisure Services department, acting on a request from the council to reconsider the location of a proposed Lions Park swimming facility several weeks ago, came up with a plan that would split the planned complex and relocate the components to two other locations.
Other changes to the original proposal include replac-ement of the hike and bike trail at Miller Park, the addition of an outdoor family changing room at the Summit Recreation Center and improvements to Sam-mons Golf Links. The changes result in a possible bond issue that is about $2 million greater than the $7.57 million figure originally under consideration.
“We took the lead that council brought (before us) and looked at other sites than Lions Park,” Ken Cicora, Parks and Leisure Services director, said about the pool relocation.
The new plan would include a $4.1-million family aquatic center as presented in previous meetings with the addition of a separate “tot” pool. The facility would be located at the existing South Temple Park, which is a flying disk park on South 5th Street.
Cicora said that with the current design, the disk park and the pool would co-exist, with only one hole affected.
He said the South Temple Park location is not “site specific” yet since soil tests have not been done there.
The current Lions Park pool is located on a hillside and has begun settling and cracking. The original plan called for a replacement pool complex to be located either higher up the hill or lower near the softball fields.
About $1.9 million would go toward locating a heated, indoor pool, which was in the original proposition, to a site at the Sammons Community Center.
The Summit expansion, estimated at $1.625 million, grew in scope to include an outdoor family changing room.
The Miller Park hike and bike trail is estimated to cost about $200,000 and would be added to the $400,000 figure for a spray park and other improvements planned there. The trail would replace the current crushed granite trail, which tends to wash out, Cicora said.
Another addition to the proposed bond is $350,000 for lengthening the golf course.
Other elements from the original, proposed package include $475,000 for the West Temple Spray Park, $400,000 for Lions Park soccer practice fields, $300,000 for Ferguson Park improvements.
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