Le Roy residents are being given a chance to tell the Village Board what to do about the community swimming pool, which has been closed all summer.
The board will conduct a survey via the Le Roy PennySaver.
Mayor Ged Brady, in his "Mayor's Notes" column, wrote the board has decided to forgo a $6,700 professional survey in favor of the less expensive ($250) clip-and-mail-in questionnaire in the local shopper.
The options for Le Roy include repairs, filling in the hole, building a spray part or constructing a whole new facility at a cost of more than $3 million.
Basic repairs would cost $150,000, but full-scale maintenance's work would approach $400,000, according to the mayor.
An indoor pool would require a partnership with the school district, but give the town and village a place for year-round swimming.
Brady said a government grant could be sought for a new facility, and possibly for other options, but the main concern for taxpayers, he said, would be year-to-year maintenance expense.
"For the first option -- 'fill it in' -- the only substantial cost would be for bulldozing, hauling and filling, which would be reduced by Village and Town working together, sharing equipment and manpower," Grady wrote. "The ongoing costs would be practically nil."
A spray park would cost about $25,000 per year, and a swimming pool open to the public during the summer would cost local taxpayers about $60,000 per year. A year-round pool, including staffing, would cost more than $250,000 per year.
The mayor wrote that each 5-cent increase per $1,000 in assessed value on property taxes would raise about $30,000.
In 2007, there were more than 1,500 visits to the pool.
