I am THRILLED that the meeting went well. The Jordan community needs a public swimming pool! Keep up the good work.

PS- I would never allow my children to swim in Mill Pond. The lawn chemicals and pollution that collect in a run off pond are dangerous. I hope the city council understands that simply dredging the Mill Pond will not make it a suitable public swimming facility.

Jordan Aquatic Center .....Thanks Mathias for starting this forum...I was at the Park and Rec Board Meeting Monday night and it was a good discussion. The board is interested in learning more which is a great next step. Do you think you could do an online poll sometime with a simple yes or no question of are you in favor of the Jordan Community Aquatic Center? It would be interesting to see what those results would look like as one sample only.

My hope is that the pool and the mill pond situation do not become an either or option in the future. My hope would be that we can have both as landmarks in our community. The millpond is great and I would like to see it clean too so we can have the fountain back out in the water.

HOLD THE PHONE!! I think getting people's impression on their desires for the pool would be extremely helpful. As far as taxes....well, I think we are very premature to discuss any project funding impacts on the individuals of the community.

One of the benefits of the Feasibility Study would be to establish not only whether the Jordan Community has the demographic makeup to support the project, but we'd also learn potential first costs, anticipated operating costs, the makeup of potential funding sources for the project (i.e. some combination of private and public financing, maybe even grant participation).

Let's not make the mistake of giving people the incorrect expectation that they are going to have to foot the bill for a pool until we have an idea what might lie ahead.

Our committee's goal has always been rooted in bringing a summer recreation venue to the community in a manner that makes us wonder how we ever lived without it! I know one thing....there were many times during the "dog days" of last summer, when the mercury was bouncing around that 100-degree mark, that I would have paid everyone's admission to the a Jordan Pool!

R. W. Johnson

To answer the 'Editorial' question - 'Who needs a pool?' - that's easy, Jordan needs a pool as a recreational outlet for young and, yes, even for old(er) people.
I have yet to hear of anyone 'earning' a DUI, getting hooked on drugs, speeding or robbing a bank in a swimming pool. Iraq is providing a host of problems, many generated by young people who have nothing to do in their spare time.
Jordan doesn't need that. It might be found that taxes for crime prevention are less than those for crime apprehension, prosecution and incarceration.