Bellevue officials are having trouble figuring out how they are going to pay a pool management company just hired by the borough.

Council members Linda Woshner and Jane Braunlich pointed out that council budgeted only $56,000 for pool salaries this year, and hiring Swim America for the summer will cost the borough $85,000.

Finance committee chairman Mark Panichella said that the borough treasurer had referred council to a particular budgetary line item, only it turned out that the line item of $122,000 referred to revenue, not expenditures.

Pool revenue is included in the borough’s general fund and was already budgeted for other items.

Braunlich said that the home rule charter prohibits the borough from spending money on unbudgeted items.

Council president Kathy Coder said at Tuesday’s work session that the facts of the situation were simple.

“We’re either going to work with this and make it work or not open the pool,” she said.

“The other fact is we need to pay for it,” said council member Susan Viscusi.