Fairfax Pool Plans a Facelift

Fairfax Pool will look a lot different next year.

The over 50-year-old staple on Roberts Road will undergo renovations improving the bath house and other areas. Renovation plans were approved during the pool's annual meeting in April. Board members hope to have construction complete before Memorial Day opening weekend next year.

“We are going to gut the bath house and keep the current walls, everything else inside is going to be new,” said Sarah Hamaker, a membership co-chair for Fairfax Swimming Pool Inc. “We’re doing all we can do without tearing it down completely.”

In 2007 the pool underwent its first renovation since the 1950s, when the facility was first built. The project was financed by selling the pool's corner lot.

Fairfax, like other swim clubs in the area, gives members the option to purchase stock in the pool. Stockholders voted to fund the renovation with a $210 assessment per member, to be divided over the next three years.

The assessment will be separate from the annual membership fees.

“We’ve had no members complain about paying the assessment,” said Hamaker. “Most of what we heard has been ‘oh its only that?’ We wanted to keep it within what our membership would support and what we would be able to pay as a pool. We didn’t want our membership to pay a lot of money for a renovation, we know times are hard.”

Currently, Fairfax Pool board members are evaluating construction contractor bids.

Among the new amenities presented at the annual meeting were a new entrance from the parking lot, new picnic and sport area and a new handicap ramp.

The home of the Fairfax Frogs is still in full swing this summer, with residents cooling off on hot days and everyone looking forward to the end of the summer Doggy Splashdown event in which neighborhood pets get their own chance to swim laps.