Pool change should not be so costly

To the editor:
I don’t know about what you think on the subject, but I think that, from what I have read in the paper about the new pool, for anyone to suggest that it would cost $268,000 more to make just one end of the pool 6 inches deeper, this is price gouging the public trust.
Whoever is in charge of this project should tell the contractors and architects “to take a hike” as they are supposed to know what the law, regulations and code are and to incorporate them into their design. If the swim team regulations state so and so then it is their responsibility to know these regulations and to have put them in the original design. If they did not know this then I wonder what other mistakes they have made. After the concrete has set up is not the time to find out what other blunders have been “unintentionally” made in the design. For the amount the pool is costing and when it is finished, an “I am sorry I did not think of that” is just not acceptable.
This is not a time to throw more money into the wind for something that should not have gotten off the drawing board in the first place. It is common knowledge to tool and die workers that the engineers never make “mistakes” but they make a lot of “design changes” while you are building the die. But in the case of the pool the engineers have made a mistake and they need to make it right, at their expense. Six inches more concrete on one end of the pool cannot possibly cost $268,000. This is not the fault of the park board, City of Portland or the people of Jay County or whoever else is on the customer side of this project, this is a problem with design and it needs to be corrected by the designers before another shovel full of dirt is moved.
Sincerely,
Max Blowers
Bryant