SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – City leaders are planning to take another look at reopening the city pool at Loyd Park.
In May 2017, some residents were angered when the South Pittsburg City Commission announced the pool would not be opened that summer due to budget cuts.
“That’s all these kids have around here,” one resident shouted at the board at the time. “We need to try to get some money together for these kids.”
The pool remained closed in 2017 and again this year because Mayor Virgil Holder said the town didn’t have enough money to maintain it.
The pool is “way out” of the budget, he said in 2017.