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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
Bathhouse, stand on schedule for $1.3 million Wapak Waterpark
By WILLIAM LANEY
Managing Editor
Work on the $1.3 million Wapakoneta Waterpark bathhouse and concession stand should start this week, a city administrator says.
Wapakoneta Recreation Director Jack Hayzlett updated Wapakoneta City Recreation Board members during Monday’s meeting and informed the Wapakoneta Daily News a few snags have been overcome.
“We have been working on the paperwork and at this point we have issued purchase orders and contracts to the contractors to move ahead on the bathhouse and the concession stand,” Hayzlett said of the two contractors — Kenny Kohlreiser Masonry and Benchmark Homes — for the projects. “We had some hurdles to jump over, and we got everything resolved
and to everyone’s satisfaction.”
Due to a change in contractors, a revised set of drawings needed to be approved by state officials. City administrators opted to non-perform alternates with Mansfield-based Astro Pools and to allow other firms and volunteer labor to make improvements to the bathhouse and concession stand.
Astro Pools submitted a bid of $1.58 million with alternates, which included water heaters, natural gas lines and basement stairwell work, as well as work to the bathhouse and concession stand.
A group of local fundraising volunteers, under the direction of Wapakoneta Daily News Publisher Dianna Epperly, is working to raise $200,000 to make improvements to the facilities.
They also raised money to increase the height of the slide platform by 4 feet and to install a 20-foot looped slide instead of a 16-foot slide. G.A. Wintzer & Son executives and workers pledged $52,000 for the change in the slide.
The remaining money is to remodel the bathhouse, which will include a manager’s office, a lifeguard and employee locker room and other improvements.
The money also is to be used to make improvements and bring the concession stand up to state health codes.
Some of the money is to be used to purchase deck chairs, tables and umbrellas.
The Wapakoneta Breakfast Optimists, under the direction of local fence installer and Optimist member Jim Smith, are to install some of the outside fencing this weekend at the project site.
“The water park is still slated to open July 5, so that is why we have given the contractors the go ahead,” Hayzlett said. “We raised enough of the money, we’ve done all we could to this point and that is why we gave them the go ahead so when we open on day one everything is completed to the best of our ability. It should be a great experience.”
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 May 2008 )
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