Yan Yean MLA Lauren Kathage (pictured) says the community has told her \u201cloud and clear\u201d that they want a pool in Mernda.
\u201cA recent survey that I ran for just a short time very quickly had 500 people responding that they want to see a pool built,\u201d Ms Kathage said
\u201cCouncil approved a pool in 2021. At the time they said: \u2018We heard that residents want 50-metre lap swimming, warm water exercise programs, water play and learn-to-swim areas in the proposed facility \u2026 We\u2019re delighted to bring that vision to life in the future Mernda facility \u2026\u2019
\u201cOn the basis of that, this government has committed $30 million to the overall regional sports precinct.
\u201cThe Council has gotten the stadium underway, but an upcoming decision about making the pool a reality could put the pool at risk. \u201cI join with my constituents in making very clear to Council that the community still wants a pool. The community wants to see council getting behind them, confirming that the pool is going ahead and getting underway the detailed work to make it happen. This is a longstanding project of the City of Whittlesea that we are proud to support as the state government, and we are ready to see it getting underway in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yan Yean MLA Lauren Kathage (pictured) says the community has told her \u201cloud and clear\u201d that they want a pool in Mernda.\u201cA recent survey that I ran for just a short time very quickly had 500 people responding that they want to see a pool built,\u201d Ms Kathage said\u201cCouncil approved a pool in 2021. At…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}