The question to Wanganui's district councillors is simple - what's going to happen to the Wanganui East swimming pool?
And it will be delivered to Wanganui's mayor and some councillors at a public meeting being held in the Wanganui East School hall at 6.30pm next Tuesday.
The meeting has been organised by Toddy Sollitt, long-time manager at the suburban outdoor pool and a member of the trust which has had the contract to run the pool for the last few seasons.
"I'm doing it because I believe it's high time people have a chance to tell the council exactly what they feel about our pool," Mr Sollitt said.
"It will be an ideal opportunity to gauge what the community thinks about the complex."
He said as pool manager he kept getting "mixed answers" from council officers particularly about claims of thousand of litres being lost from the pool on a daily basis. Officers have been saying that by their estimates it is losing about 30,000 litres a day.
But hanging over the pool is the fact funding has been pulled from the council's Annual Plan which jeopardises chances of it re-opening next summer. That funding amounted to $391,000 in the next financial year and $47,000 in the following two years.
Mayor Annette Main has already said public submissions to the plan could bring about a change and that has driven the Tuesday meeting.
The problems at the pool came to a head last year when it was found that almost 18 million litres of water had been lost in the first six months of 2013. The council carried out temporary repairs before it opened for this summer in December. It closed for the season the middle of last month.
Mr Sollitt is adamant there is not a lot wrong with the pool, despite what council officers had been saying.
"The only water we've been drawing off is for the chlorinator and then that water goes back into the pool anyway," he said. "I've kept all the records for this season and before that and I can tell you the council's figures are all to hell.
"I've got the water draw off down to 17,000 which is half what council is claiming and it's for normal running of the pool," he said.
Mr Sollitt said there were a lot of people wanting to see the pool kept open and that included Okoia, Kaitoke, Gonville, Wanganui East and St Anne's primary schools.
"They don't like going to the Splash Centre and the centre couldn't handle the numbers of kids from all those schools anyway," he said. "This is our chance to put our side of things to the mayor and councillors. We want to be told if it's going to be open and we need to be told one way or the other."