October 6, 2025 By Carol Britton Meyer
Now that the South Shore Country Club pool litigation is settled – with the first round of bids in excess of the town’s appropriation for the project — “the town is [now] resoliciting bids” as the next step in the process, Select Board Chair William Ramsey told the Hingham Anchor. The hope is that a qualified bid within the appropriation will be received.
The long-delayed project is moving forward as the result of the mutual resolution reached recently between the town and nearby property owners who appealed the permits granted for the new South Shore Country Club pool in 2022.
The cost of that litigation is $203,692, according to Town Administrator Tom Mayo in response to a Hingham Anchor inquiry.
Costs related to litigation are paid for from the legal budget that is voted on as part of Article 6 at Town Meeting, Ramsey explained.
Voters at the 2022 Town Meeting appropriated an amount not to exceed $8 million for the town-owned pool facility. In addition, Town Meeting voters also approved appropriating $550,000 from the town’s Community Preservation funds toward the pool project.
The plan includes a handicapped-accessible six-lane, 25-yard lap pool, a zero-depth entry pool, a bathhouse, equipment storage building, and a splash pad.
While the timeframe for the new pool is as yet undetermined, the goal is to have the pool ready “as soon as possible,” Ramsey said earlier. “We’re all hopeful that it will be open by next season.”
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