The Seward Wellness Center Director requested use of approximately $400,000 in existing Capital Improvement Funds for final building items to avoid incurring additional debt as the construction loan converts to long-term debt in June 2026. The council approved this request, and the City Administrator noted that a FY 2025-26 pool design item was budgeted into the long-term debt, with funds to be used and then potentially returned to pay down debt if the pool is not relocated to the Wellness Center. This suggests the city is both wrapping up punch-list/build-out items at the new Wellness Center and still evaluating whether to move and redesign the municipal pool as part of the facility. Vendors in recreation design, aquatic engineering, fitness equipment, and interior build-out can position for remaining capital purchases now and for a potential pool design/relocation decision tied to the Wellness Center in the near term.

Monthly sales tax will repay the long-term debt; the pool design line is already embedded in debt fi...