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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
No extra money for pool preparations
The city’s Recreation Department will have to live within its means or what it can raise in order to complete the pre-opening preparation work at Sunset Pool.
City officials said they needed to raise about $13,000 to take care of maintenance repairs at the pool, including painting the inside of the pool.
The city already received a $5,000 donation from Atrium Medical Center to help with covering the costs of the prep work before the summer swim season opens. However, the city is still short about $8,000.
City officials have said they will do what they can to get pool ready with what funding they are able to raise.
“I’m going to have a difficult time going to council for money (for the pool),” said Vice Mayor Jim Armbruster, who is the council’s liaison to the park board. “We’ve got to go with what we got. We need police and firefighters and have to patch potholes.”
Armbruster said he wants to work on a 10-year plan for the pool and do an analysis at the end of the 2008 season to see whether a true need for a pool is there.
He said the city needs to think about how it will cover operating expenses after 2009, which is after the three-year AK Steel Corp. grant expires.
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Arbor day efforts
A day after Middletown was recognized for the first time as a Tree City USA, the city Tree Commission held a small Arbor Day ceremony by planting a sawtooth oak tree at Dixie Heights Park on Friday, April 25.
Carolyn Keiffer, tree commission chairwoman, said the fast-growing oak can make acorns in five years, while most oak trees don’t drop acorns for 20 to 25 years. Keiffer said the Butler County Bombers baseball organization, which uses the park as its home base, has promised to water and take care of the newly planted tree this summer.
Also participating at the Arbor Day planting were representatives from Keep Middletown Beautiful and Bull’s Run Arboretum.
Keiffer said the city’s tree nursery, which is operated by the tree commission and other volunteers, has trees to give away to city residents if they promise to regularly water the tree during the summer. For more information, contact Keiffer at (513) 705-6685.
Also as part of the city’s efforts to keep Middletown green, the Middletown Area Federation of Women’s Clubs will be donating 1,400 trees to fifth-graders in the Middletown City School District for them to plant at their homes.
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