{"id":7074,"date":"2019-03-07T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:40:18","slug":"input-sought-for-mlk-jr-park-pool-feasibility-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/input-sought-for-mlk-jr-park-pool-feasibility-study-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Input sought for MLK Jr. Park pool feasibility study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The City of Yakima Parks and\nRecreation Commission will seek community input for the Martin Luther King Jr.\nPark pool feasibility study during its regular meeting at 5:30 pm on Wednesday,\nMarch 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I look\nforward to hearing comments and questions from the public during the\nCommission&#8217;s meeting,&#8221; said Councilmember Kay Funk, the City Council&#8217;s\nliaison to the Parks and Recreation Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Yakima has hired the\nconsulting firm Counsilman-Hunsaker to conduct the feasibility study. Miklos\nValdez from that firm will make a presentation during the March 13<sup>th<\/sup>\nmeeting, followed by an opportunity for the community to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Valdez will be in\nYakima Wednesday and Thursday (March 14<sup>th<\/sup>) to gather information and\nreceive input from various groups for the feasibility study,&#8221; said Parks\nand Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parks and Recreation\nCommission meets in Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\nStreet. The meeting will be televised live on Y-PAC, Charter Cable Channel 194,\nand streamed live on the City&#8217;s website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/live-stream\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/live-stream\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During its\nregular meeting on January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019, the Yakima City Council\nagreed to a feasibility study contract with Counsilman-Hunsaker. The cost for\nthe study is not to exceed $35,000. It will be paid for with Real Estate Excise\nTax 1 funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terms of the\nfeasibility study contract include identifying three possible schematic designs\nfor a community outdoor pool at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, as well as\nconstruction and operational costs for each of the pool designs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parks and\nRecreation Commission was originally scheduled to discuss and receive input on\nthe feasibility study last month, but the February 13<sup>th<\/sup> meeting was\ncanceled due to severe winter weather conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Pool-Feasibility-Study-News-Release.pdf\">Pool Feasibility Study &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Pool-Feasibility-Study-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Yakima Parks and Recreation Commission will seek community input for the Martin Luther King Jr. Park pool feasibility study during its regular meeting at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, March 13th. &#8220;I look forward to hearing comments and questions from the public during the Commission&#8217;s meeting,&#8221; said Councilmember Kay Funk, the City Council&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}