With the swimming season about to begin, the City of Smithville is working to get the pool ready to open.
During Monday night’s city council meeting, Mayor Jimmy Poss said the Langley and Taylor Pool Corporation of Nashville has been asked to come back and fix cracks that have developed in the pool since their repair work during the spring of 2011. The city has a three year warranty and the company is apparently liable for work called for under the contract which was warrantied but not done properly. “The pool guy came up today (Monday). We had a real good meeting with him. He will call before he comes back. We told him we wanted the work done just as quick as possible. He said it would take a day and a half and he would be out of there. But we have to pressure wash it first. The pool is empty. We drained it and we’ll pressure wash it,’ said Mayor Poss.
Meanwhile the new restrooms and showers will soon be completed at the pool. The building will have two commodes and a sink in both the men and women’s side and two showers will be installed on the outside of the structure. Most of the work on the restrooms is being done by city public works employees. “The bathrooms at the pool, we’ve got them dried in. We’ve got them basically plumbed. We’ve done all the work except the plumbing part. We got a certified contractor to do the plumbing. It hasn’t cost us a whole lot of money,” said Mayor Poss.
Pool operator Tony Poss said he is hoping the pool can be ready to open by May 11.
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