{"id":1470079,"date":"2026-01-09T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1470079"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:16:30","slug":"public-pool-repairs-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1470079","title":{"rendered":"Public pool repairs approved"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LONGVIEW \u2013 Longview City Council officially approved a contract to repair the public pool at the Paula Martin Jones recreation center on Thursday. The pool first closed in March of 2025 but was closed again after leaking issues continued in the pool\u2019s gutter system. At their meeting on Thursday, city council approved a $417,000 contract with Sunbelt Pools, Inc. of Dallas to repair the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur aquatics consultant worked with us on the Stanford pool. They actually have walked through the facility,\u201d Longview Parks and Recreation Department director John Albertson said. \u201cThey\u2019ve looked at everything that we\u2019ve recommended, and they agreed that those were necessary repairs to make in order to get it back operational.\u201d<\/p>\n

The repairs are expected to start in the next few weeks and could take up to six months before they\u2019re finished, according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u2013 Longview City Council officially approved a contract to repair the public pool at the Paula Martin Jones recreation center on Thursday. The pool first closed in March of 2025 but was closed again after leaking issues continued in the pool\u2019s gutter system. At their meeting on Thursday, city council approved a $417,000 contract … Continue reading Public pool repairs approved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1470080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 07:28:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470081,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470079\/revisions\/1470081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}