With summer coming soon, the Jefferson Municipal swimming pool is making preparations to get ready for the season.

The outdoor pool typically opens the last week of the school year, but with Governor Kim Reynolds public health emergency proclamation still mandating pools to be temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak until May 27th, the pool will be delayed from opening. Jefferson Parks and Recreation Director Denny Hammen says that hasn’t stopped them from making improvements to the area. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio the showers in the pool house replaced the boiler system.

“We replaced it with a large, just like a household water heater type system – a large commercial type (system) – and added a new mixer and installed new showers as well. These showers that have been placed in there now are on the wall instead of having that center post in the middle.”      

The cost for the project was $38,642 and payment was from the City of Jefferson’s local option sales and services tax as well as the general fund. Another project was replacing the fluorescent lights in the main office area as well as the exterior lights with high efficient LEDs. That project received a partial grant from the Greene County Community Foundation of $3,500. 

Hammen says they are making other preparations to be ready to open the pool once the temporary closure has been lifted by the governor.