Pool Project Timeline  from May 2023

The Recreation District Community Pool Project continues to be treading water

A swimming pool continues to be a chance for the Cañon City Community. To say so much has occurred since June 1st could be an understatement. At first the pool venture appeared prefer it was going again to the planning levels, however a gaggle of residents had different concepts. The plan now’s to assemble and function a seasonal pool on the present Icabone Swimming Pool web site utilizing the prevailing .3% gross sales tax.  A poll measure would nonetheless be required to make use of the tax for each development and pool operational subsidy.  

Below is a timeline outlining occasions beginning with the closure of the pool in 2023.

Community Pool Timeline

• May 2023: R.C. Icabone Pool closes after 56 years
• 2024: Feasibility Study Completed by OLC Architects for a alternative pool
• 2024: Public enter & stakeholders develop new, preliminary pool program
• November 2024: 2A & 6B for Capital Construction Pass, 6A for Operations Failed
• February – October 2025: Consultants had been chosen to work on a preliminary pool design. It included Wember because the Owner’s Representative, Barker Rinker Seacat because the architect, and GH Phipps because the Construction Manager at Risk. In an settlement between the Recreation District and City of Cañon City, not more than $750,000 of collected tax income may very well be spent on pool planning and design. This course of included public engagement to finalize the pool program.
• July 2025: An thought was offered to pay for the pool operations subsidy by way of an Excise Tax.
• August 2025: The Excise Tax was positioned on the November poll.
• November 4, 2025: Excise Tax for pool operations failed 
• February 2026: City of Cañon City types a Pool Committee to discover pool operational funding
• June 1, 2026: Unable to establish any operational funding, City Council determined the City of Cañon City will now not take part within the planning, financing, growth, development, operation, or upkeep of the proposed Recreation District Pool Project.
• June 9, 2026: Recreation District Board of Directors voted 3-2 to return to the drafting board to switch the closed Icabone Swimming Pool.  The Board mentioned they may have a look at choices down the highway to deal with the swimming pool.  The Cañon City Council will decide what occurs with the .3% gross sales tax for pool development.
• June 15, 2026: City Council requested to listen to concepts from the neighborhood about what to do with the projected $2.2 – $2.4 million in collected pool gross sales tax income and the way forward for the tax. They established a committee to overview this matter and make a advice to City Council by July sixth. Numerous conferences had been held to get enter.
• July 6, 2026: City Council heard from the residents committee, and the next choices had been really helpful: Put the funds in direction of Western Gateway Park, Refund the cash to the taxpayers, or Explore a scaled-back pool venture. A particular assembly was known as for July twenty first to take heed to proposals.
• July 14, 2026: Recreation District Board of Directors, after listening to citizen proposals on pool choices, agreed to take a seat down with Cañon City Council in the event that they wish to take into account a scaled-back pool.
• July 21, 2026: City Council listened to 6 shows about what to do with the collected pool funds. They determined to maneuver ahead with the next proposals: a scaled-back model of the pool venture, an incline on Skyline Drive, and funding for Western Gateway Park. A ultimate resolution could be made on the August third City Council assembly.
• July 28, 2026: The Recreation District Board of Directors held a particular assembly to make a advice on a pool proposal to City Council. The Board unanimously permitted the proposal of Heather Darrow to construct a seasonal pool, just like Option 2 within the 2024 Feasibility Study (see picture beneath). Both capital development and operational subsidy could be addressed within the present .3% gross sales tax at the moment being collected by the City of Cañon City.  
• August 3, 2026: The Cañon City Council unanimously permitted transferring ahead with Heather Darrow’s plan to deal with capital development and operational subsidy within the present gross sales tax. It would require going again to the voters in November of 2026 for approval. The City additionally agreed to fulfill with the Recreation District in a particular mixed assembly on August fifth in council chambers.
• August 5, 2026: The Recreation District Board of Directors and Cañon City Council held a mixed particular assembly to debate the pool venture and how you can transfer ahead with the proposed seasonal plan. Both entities agreed to work collectively to formulate poll language in time for the August seventeenth assembly, arrange a committee for a brand new Intergovernmental Agreement between the Recreation District and City on the pool tax, and work collaboratively to carry a seasonal pool to our neighborhood.  
• August 17, 2026: The Cañon City Council tabled transferring ahead with the poll language till an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) may very well be reached with the Recreation District on the .3% gross sales tax.  A small group representing every entity will focus on the IGA on August twentieth.  The poll language would then be thought-about at an August 24, 2026 joint assembly between the City Council and Recreation District Board of Directors.
• August 20, 2026: A small group representing the City and District met to debate the IGA and the framework of an settlement was reached.  The IGA will now be selected by the City and District on the August 24, 2026 particular assembly, the place the poll language will even be determined.
• August 24, 2026: At a particular assembly, the Recreation District Board and Cañon City Council permitted an IGA on how the prevailing .3% pool gross sales tax income could be used for each capital development and operations, if a poll measure in November of 2026 handed.  The IGA is beneath for anybody to overview.  City Council additionally permitted the poll language for this situation.  The residents will now resolve if each capital development and operations are to be approved for a seasonal pool utilizing solely the prevailing gross sales tax.  No further taxes could be added.

Canon City Area Metropolitan Recreation and Park District 2026 IGA Pool.pdf

We will proceed to replace this web site as info turns into out there on this venture.

Below is the picture of Option 2 from the 2024 Feasibility Study.