Garnett City Commissioners heard a request for a continued subsidy from the Garnett Area Chamber of Commerce last week and committed $7,000 to an engineering study looking for repair or replacement options for the Garnett Municipal Swimming Pool. Jason Hoskinson of BG consultants Engineering Firm proposed a $7,000 engineering analysis and recommendations regarding the city swimming pool, after a number of problems and controversy have plagued the aging facility in recent years.
Hoskinson says Garnett doesn’t appear to meet low-to-moderate income requirements for grant funding to pay partial costs in the pools replacement. Commissioners discussed the participation of the on-again, off-again City Steering Committee to help determine planning for the pool. City Manager Travis Wilson says the Steering Committee was never actually established by ordinance, like other city advisory board, and suggested pool planning and discussions be centered on the Garnett Parks and Recreation Committee.
