A two-pool complex may be back on the drawing board for Roxburgh.
The Roxburgh Area School is looking at joining forces with the Roxburgh Community Board to build "the best pool facility" they can afford.
The board decided in August to scale back its plans for a new complex on the existing site and build only one outside pool, after receiving estimates of $1 million for a two-pool complex.
The cost excluded a heating system, changing room facilities, landscaping and fencing and ongoing operational costs.
School Board of Trustees member, and Roxburgh Swim Centre Project committee member Rick Kristel said the existing facility was partly on school ground and partly on Central Otago District Council land.
The school was keen for the new complex to include two pools - a main pool and a learners' pool.
"Our aim is to get the best possible facility for the community that we can afford and that includes the features the public has said they want in a new swim centre," Mr Kristel said.
"The school board of trustees has put forward that it be a community pool project, done as a partnership between the board and the school."
Sharing responsibility for the complex would hopefully cut costs and split the rates burden.
The board of trustees would meet representatives from the Ministry of Education later this month to discuss the project and see if any funding was likely from the ministry.
Fundraising in the community had always been part of the plan, to ensure the project got off the ground.
Community board chairman Stephen Jeffery said the proposal might "set us on a whole new course" for the new swim centre.
An amount of $1 million has been allowed in the long-term council community plan for the project and the board had hoped the pool complex would be run by a trust, rather than its operation being funded through rates.
The board recently agreed to carry out maintenance on the existing pool and surrounds so it can be used this coming season.
It also decided to discharge the swim centre project committee.
"They've done the job we asked of them, and as far as fundraising goes, we can look at setting up another committee to deal with that," board member John Lane said.
