ROSAMOND POOL SAVED BY COUNTY BOARD FINDS MONEY TO OPEN.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
ROSAMOND - Rosamond's only public pool will be opened this summer after Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. members decided to reach into their own discretionary budgets for their districts to make up a budget shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. . The supervisors ponied up the $89,500 necessary to open the Westpark Pool. Supervisor Steve Perez, whose district includes Rosamond, was able to allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. about $60,000 out of his discretionary budget for the pool while his board colleagues scoured scour 1 v. scoured, scour·ing, scours v.tr. 1. a. To clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously: scour a dirty oven. b. their budgets to come up with the rest. ``Growing up out there I know how important this pool is,'' Perez said Thursday. ``I assured them (the other supervisors) the community is going to try to come up with the dollars to keep it open.'' The key issue for this summer now is finding staffers. At least six or seven lifeguards are needed to open the pool on a minimal level, said Bob Lerude, assistant director of Kern County Parks and Recreation. ``Normally our lifeguards are signed up and ready to go by the end of February,'' Lerude said. ``Our lifeguards have found other jobs. We're in the process of looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. lifeguards.'' While the short term is being addressed, Rosamond Community Services District officials are looking at two possible long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. options for funding the pool: an expansion of the county service area that covers 500 homes in the Westpark development, but doesn't generate enough revenue on its own to keep the pool going, and a special tax. A special tax would require a two-thirds approval by voters. The funds would be administered by the Rosamond Community Services District, the community's water and sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. agency, which was given parks and recreation powers by the voters in 1998. Water officials are looking at the idea of a $50 annual assessment, which would generate roughly $300,000 annually. That would cover the cost of running the pool and adjoining park and would leave enough money for the district to look at adding other amenities. Expanding the existing county service area would require a simple majority to be approved. District officials are looking at an assessment of approximately $25 per year, covering just the operations of the pool and park. Under that option, the county would administer the funding. The Westpark pool is unique in that it is the only pool Kern County operates. All others in the county are run either by city governments or by special recreation tax districts. The pool was built as part of the Westpark housing development in the early 1990s. Developer Kaufman and Broad entered into an agreement with Kern County in 1993 to form a county services area, covering the 500 homes in the development, as a funding mechanism to keep the pool and adjoining park operating. At the time the district was formed, it was expected that additional homes built by Kaufman and Broad would be incorporated into the district. However, flood-plain issues prompted Kaufman and Broad to scrap plans for additional construction for the development. |
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