By Mark Squibb
Mount Pearl council last week approved the purchase of new starter blocks and a new diving board for the Summit Centre swimming pool.
The City received three bids for replacement of the starter blocks. One bid was deemed incomplete and thus disqualified. The recreation committee recommended council award the contract to the lowest bidder, Water and Ice, in the amount of $76,312 plus HST.
The committee noted the company is Canadian.
Council also voted on the replacement of the pool’s diving board. The current diving board was installed when the pool opened in 2014. Given a decade of use, the board has begun to show wear and tear on the stairs, platform, and stainless-steel rails.
“We’re going to replace the diving board with an identical placement to ensure that it aligns and all specifications meet the anchor patterns and so on and so forth,” said councillor Jim Locke, who, as a side note, remarked it was hard to believe the Summit Centre pool is already 10 years old.
The City received three quotes, and the recreation committee recommend awarding the contract to the lowest qualified bidder, Water and Ice once again, in the amount of $29,882 plus HST.
