He told Tuesday's council meeting it may be time to assess how the pool is managed to achieve cost savings.

"Council staff are stuck with certain laws and certain conditions that other private enterprises don't have to abide by," Cr Bourke said.

His comments follow the pools, which opened last year, having made a higher than expected loss with COVID being blamed.

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Meanwhile, Wodonga ratepayers remain in the dark about whether contractor Aligned Leisure has been endorsed to continue to operate the city's pools.

The issue was discussed in a confidential council session on Monday night and on Tuesday a city spokeswoman could not say when the decision would be made public.

That contrasts with Albury Council which openly debated the fate of an Aligned Leisure extension on its pools at its meeting on the same night.

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