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The $4 million in White Pine County’s pool fund is more than enough to build one even two Olympic sized swimming pools according research by the High Desert Advocate.
Ely’s pool or lack of one was the topic of the first meeting of White Pine County Community Forum Tuesday.
According to one of the group’s organizers Nichole Baldwin the White Pine Community Forum is much like a town hall meeting where everybody in the community is invited to attend, voice their opinions, and hear the responses from public figures or liaisons from local advisory boards and elected officials about shared subjects of interest.
The Forum meetings will be held to give the community a chance to feel that their voices, opinions, concerns, and suggestions are being heard and to ensure community members feel informed of current events in that affect our area.
“A large percentage of the population feel as if they don’t now what’s going on in local government when it is the City and County decisions that directly affect our way of life the most.” Baldwin explained in a press release.
According to Baldwin Forum members were told that there was some $4 million in the county’s pool fund.
According to records at the west wendover Recreation district, Wendover had to borrow the money to build its pool, White Pine County has the cash on hand right now to go out to bid.
While the costs of building an indoor pool would be substantially greater, it must be remembered that wendover built its pool during the height of the construction boom when it was literally a seller market for contractors. Today with Nevada still in the throes of the Great Recession contractors are the ones looking for work, White Pine County could conceivably get a once in a life time deal and build the pool at a rock bottom price.
“Let me put it this way,” said a contractor from Las Vegas. “All those people who built all the pools a couple of years ago in Las Vegas. Well no one is putting in pools now. They need the work.”
“I was really encouraged by some of the comments made by the commissioners who attended the meeting,” Baldwin said. “It seems like they were committed to seeing a pool here before their terms ran out.”
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