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Budget Priority Submission Form <br />Finance Committee <br />Due Sept 12, 2016 <br />Title: Pool Equipment To Improve Usability of Pools <br />Submitted by: Torn Bullock and Cindy Marx <br />Departments to be involved: Public Works; Recreation Department (Lakewood City Schools) <br />Potential community partners: LECPTA, Recreation Department <br />Which of the following goals does your priority address? Check all that apply <br />Safe & Secure <br />✓ Economic Development <br />✓ Other <br />Vibrant Neighborhoods <br />✓ Sound Governance <br />1. Provide a narrative description of your idea in 250 words or less. Attach a separate sheet if necessary: <br />Acquire additional equipment for pools at both Lakewood and Madison Parks to improve seating, shading, and other auxiliary <br />functions that make pools as currently configured more user friendly. <br />2. Briefly explain how this will benefit the community: <br />Our pools get heavy use by users of all ages. The facilities provide the only affordable access to swimming for many families. They <br />are expensive assets maintained by the City. For all these reasons, it makes sense to enhance the user experience to make it more <br />enjoyable and accessible. Lack of sufficient seating and shade has come up as a top complaint. These problems should be solvable at a <br />modest cost. <br />3. Estimated expense (provide a range): <br />We propose to make available up to $25,000 for additional deck chairs, shade - providing canopies, and other auxiliary equipment <br />d. Briefly summarize any proposals or discussions from the past that are related to this priority, if applicable. <br />This proposal comes from community input on the LECPTA and other Facebook pages as well as face -to -face feedback from <br />residents (as well as direct experience). <br />5. Briefly describe any preliminary discussions you have had with colleagues, the administration and /or relevant department <br />directors about this priority, if applicable. <br />Cindy Marx and Tom Bullock both expressed support in passing for the general sentiment expressed on community forums. Dir. Pae <br />has provided information on the topic on those same forums. <br />1IPage <br />