The Bay Oaks Recreational Campus Advisory Board is meeting tomorrow at noon. Representatives from Opulent Design will be at the meeting (by zoom) to discuss the new pool proposed for Bay Oaks. The public is invited to attend. Beach Talk Radio will stream the meeting live.
The cost of the pool has not been made public. CBDG-DR grant money (from HUD), which is managed by Lee County, will cover the cost to build the pool. Vice Mayor Scott Safford told Beach Talk Radio he was told the estimate for the pool is $4.675 million.
The construction price for the pool does not include ongoing maintenance that the community will have to pay for. The town did not yet have those monthly estimates. The town is also anticipating the pool will generate some revenue. They’ve projected $60,000 in revenue in 2027. Safford says the town would also need to find an additional revenue source for tables, beach chairs, umbrellas, etc. Anything to set around the pool.
AGAIN…. Wake Up People !!!!!!!
Every “Ground Level Pool” on FMB will eventually be filled up with Ocean water, sand, and debris AGAIN in the future ! Just look at Margaritaville, but we (FMB) don’t have the budget to keep repairing it after every seasonal water storm type surge each year, AND the other contributing factor, the islands storm surge drains are still plugged with past hurricane sludge / debris. Don’t waste our tax payer money fixing it every time it happens or the cost of maintaining a swimming pool pleasure that we can’t afford ! Please Just Stop !!
HUD money to build a pool?
Maybe I’m wrong but I was always under the impression that HUD money was urban development like low cost housing or assistance for the less fortunate.
Yea, I know I could probably just Google it.
It’s funds from the $1.1bil CDBG-DR… disaster recovery post-Ian.
LeeCo used to have a website on how those funds could be spent and where they’d been allocated. That website may still exist; I’ve lost my bookmark for it. I too was a bit surprised at some of the projects included under the HUD umbrella.
Getting a pool at no cost to the Town through the HUD grant is amazing, however they should identify annual operating costs first. If they are $500,000, as an example, and the net revenue is only $60,000….that might become a decision point based on ranking of the priorities. Perhaps they should consider reactivating the “Build a Pool” committee that was formed in tne 1990’s to focus on generating pool operations funding?