Wallingford Mayor Considers Vetoing Community Pool Funding

WALLINGFORD, CT — Wallingford Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. is considering vetoing funding for the Community Pool renovation project, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

The Record-Journal reports the Town Council recently approved an ordinance amendment, by a 6-3 vote, that increased the appropriation and bond authorization to $7.4 million to fund the project.

Dickinson spoke out against the plan a week before the vote and said the project should be postponed due to the economic impacts from the new coronavirus pandemic, according to the Record-Journal. Dickinson has until Friday to veto the ordinance and it would take at least seven votes to override it at the council’s May 12 meeting, the Record-Journal reports.

The project includes an 8,000-square foot pool, a splash pad area, a 3,060-square foot bathhouse, a sand volleyball court, shade structures, a playground area, a picnic pavilion, an activity lawn, concrete sidewalks and a 116-parking space lot that allows for bus circulation and drop-off interior of the site.

Read more at the Meriden Record-Journal here.