 Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute. Did you know that it's going to be watched thousands of times, shared a bunch of times, likes, comments, you name it, it's going to be there? Why is it your ad here? Call me. Williamson's Park Commission has begun phase one of upgrading and modernizing their parks. Phase one will include revamping the asphalt on the tennis court, basketball court, and adding an asphalt pad for outdoor pickleball. The people really spoke out with this community meeting on what they would like to see in their community and one of the things was a bike trail and we worked with local nonprofit and some other agencies got a grant to put in a bike trail. Some other things was to put in a splash pad to kind of revamp the parks, better parks. That's what they kept saying. They wanted a place for their families to come and gather and to do picnics and to just have a park that had green space that they could walk into, hang out in, and a park not surrounded by chain link fencing and just only ball fields. From age, wear and tear, and ground settling, the pool has developed major cracks in its structure. The cost to repair the existing structure would have been over $500,000. There's just a lot of infrastructure that would need to be changed here, but when the 77 flood happened, it caused a lot of damage to this pool, just because water is not supposed to be pressurized on the outside walls of the pool, but pressure on the inside. So the engineer's opinion was that this pool was definitely needed to be filled in and another purpose to be done with it. The master plan includes a large green space, a stage, an inclusive playground, an indoor pool, new lighting, and a splash pad. We've started crushing in the bottom of the pool because we are going to fill it in, and one of the really cool things is we're keeping the shape of that pool, kind of a remembrance thing, because the pool was a very important asset to the city and the whole community back when populations were a lot larger, but the tourism industry thankfully is picking up really nice, so we want to create nice parks for even our visitors to come and hang out. The commission is currently working on obtaining grant funding to fund the various phases of the park's upgrades. For updates on the park's renovation, go to Williamson Parks and Recreation on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.