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Wednesday 17 April 2024
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Support needed for pool project ELISE VOLLWEILER It’s time to make a splash if you want your community pool. That’s the message from Motueka Pool Committee president Fred Hickling, who is urging Motueka residents to once again pen their support for the project, to ensure that it stays in the Tasman District Council’s 10-year plan. He says that although members of the public may already have voiced their support for the construction of a covered pool, it was time to do so again, as the original proposal has been upgraded and therefore overridden with the council’s recent purchase of land which has flagged as a potential fu-
ture-proofed site. Fred says that the pool has always drawn a lot of submissions, showing a clear endorsement for the project. “The general public in the district need to support what they’re doing, because there’s probably not going to be another [chance].” The council document description is a plan that “sets out the services and projects the council intends to provide, the costs of doing so, how we’ll pay for it and what it all means for rates and debt”. Fundraising for Motueka’s swimming pool began in the 1990s, and although the project
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Motueka’s Lucas Harris soars above the jumps at the invitational Crab Jam BMX dirt jump exhibition, held at the Motueka skatepark late last month. Photo: Brodie Knox.
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