City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: JANUARY 20, 2016
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of Staff Recommendation for Replacement of Warwick Pool.
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ISSUE: That City Council accepts the staff recommendation for replacement of the Warwick Pool facility including strategies for replacement of the pools, pool building and related site work.
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Manager be authorized to proceed immediately with the necessary next steps to replace the Warwick Pool and bath house with Alternative #3 as detailed in this report.
SUMMARY: The preferred Alternative #3 for the pools consists of replacement of the existing facilities with new construction of similar design. The preferred Alternative #3 for the bath house is to construct a new one-story seasonal replacement facility. The total anticipated construction costs for the project, determined in the recent feasibility study, range from
$1.7 Million to $2.1 Million. RPCA will proceed to contract for architecture/engineering design services and construction contracting to have the new facilities open by Memorial Day 2017. Approved CIP funding for this project is $2,150,000.
BACKGROUND: Warwick Pool, located adjacent to Landover Park at 3301 Landover Street, is on property leased to the City by the Virginia Theological Seminary. Warwick Investors transferred the pool lease to the City in 1978. Site features include a 25-yard pool with a diving well, a separate wading pool, and a bathhouse and community room. Original construction of the pool is thought to be 1958.
Significant capital investments have been required over the past 35 years. In 2002, an engineering analysis of the pool was completed, finding structural issues related to the pool's construction and other site co...
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