The Greater Bendigo City Council has adopted an amended Community Aquatic Facilities Strategy 2023 to guide the City's 12 public swimming pools and one splash park for the next 10 years. The Council adopted the strategy with the following amendments: Subject to a suitably skilled Community Committee of Management being established, that the Bendigo East Swimming Pool is retained, becoming a non-heated seasonal pool, following the upgrade of Brennan Park Pool; Responsibility for all operations, risk management, asset maintenance, renewal and new investment of the Bendigo East Pool will be the responsibility of the Community Committee of Management; Provision of $50,000 in annual funding from Council will be provided to the Community Committee of Management; and If a suitably skilled Community Committee of Management is not able to be established, and adhere to the terms of the resolution, that the Bendigo East Swimming Pool is permanently closed.

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