The Yankton City Commission Monday unanimously approved a property tax opt out to fund construction of an aquatic center in Memorial Park.
The center would replace the seventy-year-old Memorial Park Pool.
Josh Svatos headed up the group “Dive in Yankton” that has been coordinating the private fundraising and public information campaign. He told the commission it was time to act.
DIY member, and former city commissioner Pauline Akland had a message to potential opponents of the project…
Mayor Nathan Johnson says it has been an open, citizen led effort….
Total cost of the opt out over twenty years would be about seventeen and a half million dollars. Anyone who may want to refer the measure to a vote would have twenty days after publication to gather petition signatures.
