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Swimming pool action group's goal set for 2006

The Carbondale Community Swimming Pool Action Group announced Saturday that it wants to, "Make a Splash for Carbondale" by May 30, 2006.

"It allowed us to keep focus and let the community know we're serious about making it happen," said Tom Corpora, a member of the group.

The swimming pool group is one of several action groups that run under the Human Relations Commission and were created through the Carbondale Conversations for Community Action.

All of the groups met in the Civic Center Saturday to discuss what they have been working on and any progress that has been made.

"It's time to take some kind of inventory of where we are," said Sam Goldman, Chairman of the HRC.

The site the swimming pool group is looking to obtain is a 16-acre plot, which is currently owned by the Carbondale Park District, adjacent to the Superblock, Corpora said.

While the group has been looking into financing, they have not investigated the specific cost of the pool.

The next step is to bring professional pool companies to Carbondale to educate the community, Corpora said.

"This is not a group that says, 'We need a pool,' and gives it to the council to do," Goldman said.

They are looking into locations and financing to support it, which, Goldman said, boasts well for its success.

However, the swimming pool group was not the only study circle that had specific ideas in place.

Marion Wright-Cavitt, from the housing group, said they have worked on many different issues such as neighborhood watches, city zoning codes and landlord/tenant relationships.

The group had focused on landlord/tenant relations in the city recently and implemented an idea for a city resolution.

The resolution the group wants to pass would require landlords to include a specific list of fees in the lease that tenants would be charged.

One example is fees for carpet cleaning, said Sarah Heyer, who works with the group. If the tenants know that they will be charged for the service no matter what, Heyer said, they will not pay to clean the carpets themselves before they move out.

Goldman said if approved by the HRC, it could possibly be on the City Council agenda by December or January.

"My hope is we will make it happen," Goldman said.

Dr. Candis Isberner, executive director of WSIU Public Broadcasting, who helped form the study groups over the summer, said seeing the development within the groups, is like watching woodwork.

"We started so long ago and to see these kinds of ideas generated that have specific action to them is the way it should be," Isberner said.

"I can't recall witnessing this kind of thing before."

 

 

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