Barry battles pool problems
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By DAVID CAMPHOUSE
The City of Barry has not yet been able to open its pool to the public for the season.
According to City Administrator Jeff Hogge, the delay in opening the pool is being caused by maintenance and repair issues. The city council discussed the pool issues at the community’s recent regular June city council meeting.
“We don’t have it opened yet,” Hogge said. “We have a holding tank that’s leaking. And there’s a whole bunch of silly smaller stuff, too.”
The city, Hogge indicated, had planned to purchase a new holding tank – or pool ‘surge’ tank this fall. The recently discovered leak, though, has caused the city to rethink its plans related to the tank.
“We were planning to replace the tank in the fall, but we tabled that discussion,” Hogge said. “That tank would have to be manufactured especially for our situation, so that it will fit with what we need.”
“Now, we’re thinking that patching the existing tank will let us get by for another three or four years.”
Approved at the June city council meeting was a bid from Peter Hauser Masonry of Springfield to tuckpoint the library building on the west side of Lafayette Square. Hauser’s bid for the work was for $14,750.
Hogge said that the city wanted to act quickly to repair the library walls, because Peter Hauser Masonry is already in town doing repair work on the Wendorff Building.
“The library wasn’t looking good,” Hogge said. “We wanted to get them to do the work on the library while we’ve still got them handy.”
The city also approved an additional $4,225 bid from Peter Hauser Masonry to do additional repair work on the Wendorff Building.
Also approved was a bid to asphalt 420th Avenue from County Road 4 to the edge of the Ascend Wellness property.
The winning bid was $105,000 from Diamond Paving.
The council also went on to discuss the future of pickleball in the City of Barry.
Currently, Hogge said, the community is installing a retractable pickleball net at the Pool Park basketball court.
“We found a net to put up at the basketball court that can be retracted to allow either sport to be played,” Hogge said.
“We are going to observe the usage of the retractable pickleball net. If it looks like it’s getting a lot of use, we’ll put in a separate pickleball court.”
