Bellevue Council approved, at its regular meeting on May 5, the purchase of a new diving board for the Memorial Park Pool at a cost not to exceed $3,000.

Public works supervisor Tony Barbarino said that the current diving board at the pool is cracked. Council originally was going to purchase the same type of board as the current one for $1,914.73, until council member Mark Helbling asked if there were any alternatives that would last longer so the board would not have to be replaced so often. According to council member Jerry Walter the board at the pool now lasted only five years.

Barbarino said that there is an aluminum board that would cost around $2,799 that would last longer.