Bellevue will solicit proposals from swimming pool management companies as well as applications from individual pool managers.

Council member Linda Woshner said that the borough’s cost to operate the swimming pool at Memorial Park increased by nearly $60,000 during the past year, when the borough retained SwimAmerica to manage the facility. In past years, the borough has hired its own manager and lifeguards.

The vote to issue an RFP was 5-3 after council again debated whether votes should be taken at the work session on non-emergency matters. Mayor George Doscher said that the public was under the impression that voting would be done at the regular meeting each month, and that officials had agreed not to vote at work sessions unless it was absolutely necessary.

“We need to follow our own rules sometimes,” Doscher told council.

Council member Mark Helbling argued that delaying the vote would waste time by inviting the same discussion at another meeting.

“Isn’t it better just to get some work done now?” he asked.

Voting against the motion were council members Woshner, Braunlich and Jim Viscusi. Council president Kathy Coder was absent.