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The future of the Bucyrus City Pool took another hit today as city officials confirmed a missed filing deadline means the proposed pool levy will not appear on the May ballot.
While the “finger-pointing” is currently happening behind closed doors, the result is public: the February 4th deadline to get the issue before voters has come and gone. Mikki Markley at the Board of Elections confirmed today that the oversight didn’t happen on their end—the paperwork simply never showed up from City Hall.
When reached for comment, several members of the administration and City Council wouldn’t speak on the record, instead directing all questions to Law Director Brandon Gobrecht. Gobrecht confirmed the failure to file this afternoon, though he remained optimistic about a potential solution.
“Yes, the pool levy never got filed,” Gobrecht told FreeWire. “We will explain it this evening. Like I said to the new Council, we haven’t come across something we can’t fix….. Yet.”
But even if a “fix” is found, it won’t be in time for summer. Gobrecht also noted that the pool was not going to open this year regardless of the levy, a reality many expected after the previous funding attempt failed in November.
The focus now turns to tonight’s City Council meeting at 6:00 PM, where the administration is expected to explain how a critical statutory deadline was missed and what the cost of a “fix”—likely a special election—might be for Bucyrus taxpayers.
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Ok don’t live in Bucyrus anymore but really TRYING to follow this story line, am I to understand that
A) “someone failed to turn in the paperwork to get the pool on the ballot
B) Even if they would have gotten it on the ballot it would not have opened?!?
C) that this is happening again? And again?
D) once again, generous folks , businesses, organizations have to step up to provide not a luxury..but a necessity for the children of the area?
Come on council and administration, you surely can do better, and certainly should have known this by now!
Sounds like some sort of incompetence to me but I dont know the whole story. What I do know is that there’s not much for kids to do around here and it’s a shame the pool just sits there, collecting dust, when it could be making money.