During the 2019 budgeting process, Council authorized funds to create a community swimming pool feasibility study for Martin Luther King Jr. Park. An Ad Hoc Committee was created in July of 2017 to explore and discuss the possibility of a community swimming pool. The committee was comprised of three City Council members, three Park & Recreation Commissioners and three community members. Six meetings were held and a report was given to City Council in February of 2018.
At a City Council study session on May 30, 2018, Martin Luther King Jr. Park was chosen as the site for the proposed swimming pool. In January of 2019, Counsilman - Hunsaker was chosen as the consulting firm to assist with the study. Three community input meetings were held in March and two more were held in June. The information obtained from the community input meetings was combined with the information gathered during the community wide survey process for the 2017 - 2022 Comprehensive Master Plan for Yakima Parks & Recreation to create the feasibility study.
Presentations from the consultant were given to the Parks and Recreation Commission in March, June and in October and feedback from those meetings has been incorporated in the final report. |