Has anybody up there thougt about a local recreation district? If there is enough interest in the sournding area for a pool-community center or whatever you want to build, you can spread the cost out. Down here in Goldendale, the city used to own the pool. A few years back, they closed it becaus repairs to keep it open would cost too much.(It was leaking about 3000gal of water a day.) They said they didn't have the money to build a new pool, even with $200K that was left to the city by a little old lady that passed on about 10 years ago. There was a lot of support around town for a pool, so a group put a proposal up for a local rec district. It covers an area that would likely use the pool, pretty much the area covered By the Goldendale and Centerville school districts. It was voted in about 6 years ago, and seems to be working pretty good. The city gave the rec district the $200K and the rec district put up a bond for the rest needed for a new pool. I can't remember all the steps the pool supporters went through, but it seemed like it didn't take long to get it on the ballot.