With a pool contract signed for more than $1.1 million, the Urbanna Town Council is looking for ways to raise $470,000 that it will have to pay once it’s built.
Demolition of the town’s old community swimming pool began last week. The opening date for the new pool is projected for May 2024.
Council members
For well more than a year during the pool committee’s research on the pool, Mayor Bill Goldsmith asked council members and others for funding ideas, but he received little help.
Council member Larry Chowning said the council should be more involved in the funding. “In 10 months when this thing (pool) is coming to an end and we don’t have $400,000 that we need to pay for it, they (the citizens) are not going to be looking at the committee, they will be looking at all of us and saying, ‘Why not?’ We need to have people from council on this committee. It’s going to be on our shoulders.”
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