Here is a new video about reaction.

When Tom Simmons spoke the other day, he actually was closer to the truth than he or the mayor ever could have realize. The 2014 voter was asked to select a YES box for a new OUTDOOR pool. A NO vote was to reject the outdoor pool. There never was an indoor pool on the ballot so a NO vote could be for no pool at all or maybe a larger outdoor pool or the natural pool proposal. The city never asked for other solutions. The mayor and his cronies took the outdoor pool loss as their justification for moving forward on the extravagance of an indoor facility costing 1,500,000.00 per year in deficits over the $25+ millions cost to build not counting the interest on the borrowed levee money ($30 million approx.).

In other words, did the 22,177 Simmons mentioned voting NO on the outdoor pool are going to be in hiding as they realize they let Huether going ahead on Sioux Falls spending at least $100 million dollars during its 50 year lifetime?

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By l3wis

5 thoughts on “The irony of voting ‘NO’ on the outdoor pool”
  1. Basically, there was no vote for an indoor pool. Neither was there a vote for the future Administation Building. It’s two 25 million dollar projects Huether forced on the public without consent. He didn’t/doesn’t have authority. Some would say its irregular procedure. A better terminology is unarmed robbery. It’s steering public funds into a developer without public, council, or competitive bids process. Huether is dictator but also Public Enemy Number One.

  2. It was ultimately those on the City Council who voted to fund the project who are responsible for it moving forward.

    This taxpayer-owned facility was initially presented to the public at a cost of 19.4 million dollars. It came in at 24,065,500 million dollars.

    That’s a 4.7 million dollar cost overrun!

    Who can name the councilors who voted in favor of this?

    Because not even Mike Huether could have made this project happen without their vote!

    In addition to the 4.7 million dollar cost over run for the capital cost of constructing the indoor aquatic center, the operating costs were first presented to the public as an estimate of $750,000 annually. They are now estimated at well over a million dollars a year.

    BTW, has the public been given the list of businesses and individuals who have donated to the facility.

    Still waiting to hear from the swim team. They repeatedly told the public they would be making a FINANCIAL contribution to the indoor aquatic facility.

  3. Again, what is the point of bitching about it after it’s built and people are using it? You heard the small talk about petitioning for a vote on the indoor pool project and there was very little interest. You need to learn to move on.

  4. “Again, what is the point of bitching about it after it’s built and people are using it?”

    My point exactly, but instead replace the word ‘bitching’ with ‘lying’.

    It’s done, I have accepted that. So what’s the point to continue to lie about how we got there? It’s like they have to justify their past lies with new lies.

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