Jersey Village City Council discusses fate of city pool after unsuccessful bond election

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City staff and citizen volunteers have already dedicated time over the last two years to come up with a solution for the pool, council member Drew Wasson said.

“I am ... open to anyone ... who has an idea of a cost and a timeline and a plan before we decide in December or January to demolish the current pool ... because obviously a bond’s not working,” Wasson said.

Repairing the current city pool would cost around $800,000, but those repairs would last only about five years, Warren said.

“When we're discussing this ... it has to be on the basis of information that's been provided to us from people who are knowledgeable in the field, not people who walk by a pool and say, 'It looks good to me.' ... That's not the way you actually plan for infrastructure,” Warren said. “So we've got to do a better job as a council, I think, in communicating all the issues so that everyone understands exactly what's at stake.”

The results are in

On Nov. 19, City Council unanimously canvassed the results of the Nov. 5 election. The final totals regarding the pool bond were:

• 2,196 total votes against
• 1,622 total votes in favor

Clark Henry Pool was built 49 years ago in 1975 and has exceeded the average 30- to 40-year lifespan, as previously reported by Community Impact.

Atirikta Kumar and Danica Lloyd contributed to this report.