Happyland Pool is set to close after the city's Standing Policy Committee for Community Services voted not to pass along a motion to executive council.
A pool in St. Boniface may not to see the light of summer after cuts in the City of Winnipeg's multi-year budget announced earlier this year.Pool,” and was pulled together in less than two months, after Winnipeg’s budget said it would be closing the pool down alongside two others.
As such, the motion was rejected three to one, with Transcons Coun. Russ Wyatt voting in favour of the motion. “I’m not saying they don’t deserve their pool. Every community in the city should have a pool. But when they said they were going to spend money to open their pool, we though that… the city would do the same to us, treat us equally. It was surprising,” he said.
Scott said these reasons are not altogether shocking, but it’s frustrating to have a pool taken away from St. Boniface.
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