OPENING hours at Tallangatta and Corryong swimming pools will be cut as Towong Council looks to save $10,000.
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The shire plans to reduce opening hours by seven hours a week over the coming November to March pool operating period.
It follows the pool season having been reduced by a week over 2015-16.
The council shelved a plan to end its $12,500 contribution to Eskdale pool which would have resulted in the site closing.
Instead, the council will lower its funding for Eskdale by $1000.
Mitta Valley councillor Aaron Scales suggested the Tallangatta and Corryong communities review the way their pools, which cost $230,680 annually, operate.
"I do believe that the swimming pools could perhaps be better delivered," Cr Scales said.
"(At Eskdale) they deliver their swimming pool with a budget under $30,000 a year (and) their swimming pool has longer hours than what we run at Tallangatta and Corryong.
"I just think there may be a better way."
A motion stated that "a review of swimming pool services be undertaken including consideration of a community-based model" for Tallangatta and Corryong.
The days on which Tallangatta and Corryong pool hours would be reduced are yet to be decided with shire management saying they could come via one hour per day, two weekdays or a Saturday or Sunday.
Corryong Swimming Club president Melissa Humphrey said it would be preferable for a cut to affect a weekday rather than the weekend.
She said her swimming club, which has 100 members, would be unlikely to be able to help with a community management model.
"We haven't got as much manpower as it is to run the club let alone the swimming pool," Mrs Humphrey said.
She said the club had helped the shire save costs by moving to solar power.