City of Mountain Home and WECRD discuss possible partnership

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Stephanie Root

On the afternoon of Dec. 5, the Mountain Home City Council and the Western Elmore County Recreation District held a joint special meeting. The WECRD asked for the meeting for the City to consider entering a partnership with the district to help with building and maintaining their planned indoor pool facility.

The meeting began with WECRD Director Lee Pierce giving the room a rundown on what has been going on with the district since the new board took over. Currently sidewalks and curbing are being put in on the property with expectations that it will be finished in January 2020. The district hopes to continue with site work in the spring of 2020 when they finish fixing the cut/grade and getting the remaining property to a sub-grade level and will begin construction of the parking lot, at the same time they will be continuing to fundraise for the money needed to build the facility.

The WECRD has decided the districts best course of action is to build the facility in phases with the recreational pool coming first and the lap pool to be built in a later phase. The overall project is estimated to come in at $8.2 million dollars with the first phase coming in at $5.7 million, the district is still needing $1.4 million for completion of the first phase.

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All these years taxing etc. still 1.4 million short of funds to complete 1st phase. I'd say we should probably forget any further phases as funding always seems to evade WECRD. Now seeking collusion with the city trying to make it up. I don't know but it seems were still spending without and end in sight. Nice sidewalk though.

-- Posted by goatbeard on Wed, Dec 11, 2019, at 7:57 AM

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