HOBART | The park board will solicit bids to fix a faulty lining in the deep end of Hobart Community Pool.

Parks Superintendent Vic Levan said city workers would remove the old liner and contract for a new liner to be installed. He hoped bids would be back in time for a decision to be made at the March 12 park board meeting.

Levan said it is unclear how much the repairs would cost, but said having city workers remove the old liner would cut down on costs.

The city took over the Hobart Community Pool in 2005, and operated the pool for a full season for the first time last summer.

The pool will operate this year without a splash pad, which the park board has been debating installing in the pool area. The zero-depth pool originally had been proposed for Triangle Park near City Ball Park so it could be accessible from the Oak Savannah Trail. But as plans for the splash pad grew, park board members said they thought the splash pad would be better suited for the pool area.

Levan said there were several options for what to do with the splash pad, including turning the smaller "training pool" into the splash pad, creating the splash pad between the training pool and the large pool, or putting the splash pad somewhere else entirely.

Levan said the park board would use the summer months to develop the plan further, and construction could begin after the pool closed for the year.

"There are a lot of good ideas, and we realized we don't have enough time to get it done this year," he said.