Eudora ? Eudora city officials are floating another plan to replace the city’s dilapidated municipal pool.

In an Aug. 26 election, Eudora voters will be asked to approve $2.25 million in bonds and a half-cent citywide sales-tax increase to finance reconstruction of the 27-year-old pool.

Voters rejected one pool plan earlier this year but delivered a mixed message in doing so.

Voters split on two separate pool-related measures on the April 1 general election ballot: They rejected issuing up to $2.5 million in bonds for the pool, but approved a proposed half-cent sales tax increase.

In August, the idea is to combine the issues into one question, albeit with a slightly lower price tag.

“We scaled it back a little,” said Mike Yanez, city administrator.

Instead of two water slides, the new pool would have only one. The proposed bathhouse also would be smaller, and the new pool’s length would be 25 yards instead of 25 meters.

But the overall concept would remain much the same as included in the April plan, he said. The new water slide still would be about three stories tall, the pool still would have six lap lanes and the project still would include a zero-depth entry area, a diving well with two boards, spray toys and plenty of landscaping.

“It’ll pretty much be an aquatics park,” Yanez said.

The sales tax would be expected to generate about $85,000 a year, Yanez said, leaving another $93,000 a year to come from property taxes.

Voting to replace the pool would trigger an estimated 3.3-mill increase in the city’s levy, or enough to add about $3.17 a month to the property-tax bill for the owner of a $100,000 home, Yanez said. A mill equals $1 in taxes for every $1,000 of a property’s assessed valuation.

Yanez said the city’s financing plan called for paying off the project’s debt in 20 years.

The new aquatics center would be built at the site of the existing pool, in Lucy Kaegi Park.

“Our present pool’s too old and too small,” said Yanez, who noted that Eudora’s population had more than doubled, from about 2,100 to more than 4,300, since the pool opened. “We’re experiencing a lot of repair costs to keep it running. It’s just a matter of time before it totally fails.”