Pardubice will build a covered 25-meter pool even without subsidies

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Pardubice - Pardubice will build a 25-meter indoor swimming pool for 50 million crowns even without subsidies. Construction ideally should start in the fall. The swimming complex no longer has the required capacity. Jiří Vysoudil, the director of the swimming complex, told ČTK.

Pardubice was supposed to receive a subsidy of 20 million crowns, which did not happen due to the case of manipulating subsidies in sports, in which the then head of the Football Association Miroslav Pelta and former deputy minister Simona Kratochvílová are involved.

The city proposed and ultimately approved that the investment will be covered from its own funds. "We will continue to strive for the allocation of a subsidy," said the deputy mayor Jiří Rozinek (ČSSD).

The city hall will again select the company that will build the pool. The company that won the public competition withdrew due to technical reasons, and therefore the city hall canceled the competition.

Construction was supposed to start on June 1. Originally, the Sun Beach was to be closed, near which the pool will stand. The aqua center eventually opened the swimming pool, which will be operational all summer, Vysoudil said.

The new pool is needed by the aqua center because it is at the limit of its capacity. Starting in September, mandatory swimming lessons for children will be enacted, with 3,000 children registered, which is 550 more than last year. "We will probably have to slightly extend the opening hours in the aqua zone to accommodate all the schoolchildren," Vysoudil said.

Last year, around 470,000 people visited the swimming pool. Before the reconstruction, around 300,000 people visited the complex annually. The modernized complex opened to the public in mid-2012.