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County Synergies
Recommendations -- Next Steps
HTTF Findings and Recommendations
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Key Findings
Our community needs a new public aquatic facility. It will be critical for Jefferson County, Port Townsend, and stakeholders to collaborate, because our community cannot financially
operate two separate aquatic facilities.
There are viable site locations in the Tri Area (Port Hadlock, Irondale, and Chimacum) that are more accessible to a large portion of the Jefferson County Community than the Mountain
View Site.
An aquatic facility can be designed to cost, with a minimum cost of approximately $24-25M.
We need a financial plan that balances project revenues and costs.
We need to build an affordable plan before asking for public funding. Start by establishing a PFD and partnering with the JAC to form a public-private coalition.
We need to support the Mountain View pool through FY 28.
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Finding #1 – Site Locations
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Finding:
There are viable site locations in the Tri Area that can serve a larger portion of the Jefferson County community.
Recommendation:
The county should consider an aquatic facility in the Tri Area. Suitable sites were identified;
Land adjacent to H. J. Carrol Park (would be on septic system).
Land by the Jefferson Country Library (would be on sewer system).
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Advantage of the Tri Area site
Supports 7000 more county residents within a 20-minute commute.
Supports country plans for urban expansion.
Supports options for sewer and septic systems.
Centrally located for schools.
South County residents are used to traveling to Port Hadlock for groceries.
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Finding #2 – Construction Costs
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The HEALTHIER TOGETHER CENTER FEASIBILITY STUDY provides an unconstrained concept design and parametric cost estimate driven by unconstrained community input.
Other communities in Washington have been able to design and build aquatic facilities at lower cost! An aquatic facility can be designed to cost with larger or smaller changing rooms,
general purpose rooms, and finishes. Comparing similar facilities around the area, it appears a likely the minimum cost is $24-25M for an indoor aquatic facility starting construction
in FY27.
There are repair options that could marginally extend the life of the MVP but doesn’t modernize the facility. (This is not a long-term cost-effective approach.)
The need for a Septic system appears to add $2M to the costs to build an aquatics center at the H.J. Carrol site.
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Finding #3—
Operations and Maintenance Costs
We cannot project the operation and maintenance costs without further research.
It would be important to conduct research on the operations and maintenance costs of a two-tank aquatic facility, with one of the pools being six lanes and 25 yards.
Recommendation:
The group that moves forward with this project should develop a sub-committee that will focus primarily on operation and miniatous costs.
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Finding#4 – Budget Planning
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A HEALTHIER TOGETHER Aquatic Facility will cost at least $24-25M to build starting in 2027 requiring annual debt service payments of $1.720M annually for 30 years. (A $20M bond would
require $1.376M in annual debt service.)
A HEALTHIER TOGETHER Aquatic Facility will require between $0.350-1M in subsidies to operate annually
A PFD also requires management adding ~$100K annually
A Public Facilities District - PFD can levy up to a 0.2% sales tax which could generate $1.5M and growing starting in FY27.
We need a financial plan that balances project revenues and costs. The current numbers don’t work.
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Finding #5—County Synergies
Benefits of building a new pool versus repairing existing pool.
Benefits of two tanks.
Benefits of one location over another.
Benefits of Myrtha versus concrete pool.
Pros and cons of Sprung Structure in relation to location.
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Additional Findings
The public needs to be informed that the timeline for a publicly funded aquatic center will not result in a pool until at least 2028.
2024 Establish a PDF to lead the effort
2024-2025 Refine the HEALTHIER TOGETHER CENTER FEASIBILITY STUDY into an affordable plan
2025-2026 Develop and socialize the plan and proposed tax levy language helping the public understand their costs and rewards
2026 Vote to approve the Tax level
2027 Start Construction
2028 Open aquatic center
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