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Residents supporting Wondai Pool at the public consultation meeting in Coronation Park last Monday (Photo: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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South Burnett Mayor Keith Campbell (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 29, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rumours that Council plans to close Wondai Swimming Pool have disappointed South Burnett Mayor Keith Campbell.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Mayor said Facebook posts about the future of the pool had led to a lot of unnecessary upset in the town.<\/p>\n

“We have never announced any intention to close Wondai Pool or any other pool,” the Mayor said.<\/p>\n

“What our new Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Plan proposes is we start collecting data on pool usage, pool running costs and likely future maintenance costs.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have a lot of this information at the moment, and Council needs it to sensibly manage our pools in the future.”<\/p>\n

The Mayor said this aim was clearly stated in the Draft Plan, which is attempting to come up with a long-term system to manage the region’s public sporting and recreation assets.<\/p>\n

A public consultation meeting held at Wondai’s Coronation Park last week drew the largest attendance of six scheduled feedback meetings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An estimated crowd of about 50 turned up with several people\u00a0 carrying placards demanding Wondai Pool be saved.<\/p>\n

The Mayor said he was sorry so many people had been misled.<\/p>\n

“Wondai Pool runs many activities for the community and it’s very well used, so I understand why so many residents feel strongly about it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Campbell said the public consultation meetings had run fairly smoothly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As well as Wondai, meetings were held in Blackbutt, Nanango, Kingaroy, Proston and Murgon.<\/p>\n

Mayor Campbell said no residents turned up at the Murgon meeting.<\/p>\n

Opinions collected at the meetings – and the feedback forms submitted to the Council – will now be passed on to the consultant who wrote the first draft report.<\/p>\n

This will be used to draw up a second draft which would then be put out to a second round of public consultations.<\/p>\n

After this, councillors would assess and, if necessary, amend the completed plan before it was finally adopted.<\/p>\n

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