The Ames City Council will hold a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers at City Hall to evaluate the proposed outdoor aquatics center for the city.

The agenda for the meeting states that the date of the special election on the project will be determined, as well as the future location of the aquatics center. As presented on May 8, the Ames Parks and Recreation Commission’s recommendation calls for the facility to be approved for location along 13th Street, east of Squaw Creek.

A location in southwest Ames was also considered by the commission, but the commission deemed the 13th Street location more accessible to a greater number of Ames residents, among other strengths.

“We’re never going to make everybody happy,” said Nancy Carroll, director of Ames Parks and Recreation. “We wish we could.”

She also said the response the commission has received on the project has been very positive.

The Parks and Recreation Commission has also recommended an election date of July 24, which is also up for approval at the City Council meeting. This date sparked some disagreement because fewer ISU students would be in Ames for the vote, but the commission has gone ahead with its recommendation of a late-July election, primarily because it will save money and speed up progress on the facility, which they hope to open in 2009.

However, Carroll and Dan Rice, 1st Ward city councilman, both said the decision to go ahead with the summer election was made easier by student representatives from both the Government of the Student Body and the greek community expressing their support for the recommended election date. Rice said there was no absence of student representation on the matter.

GSB president Brian Phillips, senior in political science, said the Student Affairs Commission, which includes three GSB representatives, met to discuss the proposal and decided in the end to lend their support.

“The cost was a significant factor,” Phillips said.

He said he had initial concerns about the project’s expense raising property taxes, and thus increasing rent for students.

He said once the numbers made it clear that the rent increase would be minimal, he felt comfortable supporting the plan.