The White Salmon City Council has asked the designers of a proposed new swimming pool to work on reducing the estimated cost of the facility before moving ahead with a feasibility study for operating it. Mayor David Poucher says they have been whittling costs, but there is a need to go further. The cost estimate is currently three-point-nine million dollars, but Poucher says they want to get down to around three million. The City continues to study costs on taxpayers to construct the pool, as it considers seeking a pool district that would be similar to the boundaries of the White Salmon Valley School District.