How Winnipeggers feel about the city's plan to close some pools
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The new four-year budget calls for three pools to be shut down and 20 wading pools would be replaced or decommissioned. With the closures, the city would invest in 10 new spray pads at a cost of $20 million. But some say the swimming pools are too important to pull the plug on.
Winnipeggers are making waves about a plan to close their local pools.
The new four-year budget calls for three pools to be shut down and 20 wading pools would be replaced or decommissioned.
With the closures, the city would invest in 10 new spray pads at a cost of $20 million.
But some say the swimming pools are too important to pull the plug on.
"I was shocked. I was angry," said Coun. Matt Allard.
The three pools are the indoor Eldon Ross Pool in Brooklands, the outdoor Windsor Park Pool and the Happyland Outdoor Pool in St. Boniface – the area Allard represents.
Allard is lobbying his council colleagues to save the pools and he said he has identified $1 million in the budget that could be shifted.
