As the calendar flips to June, the Sidney Aquatic Center remains closed, but city officials hope to have it open next month.

"We would like to try to get it open," interim city manager David Scott said. "I know that people want to see it happen and I'd like to see it happen, but we're probably going to be looking at early July as the soonest we'd be able to get all our chemicals and supplies ordered and lifeguards re-certified."

The city has been put in a bit a tough spot with the situation. In April, Governor Pete Ricketts recommended public pools stay closed until July 15th.

Toward the end of May he changed his tune, saying pools could open to 25 percent capacity starting June 1st.

"That kind of leaves us scrambling now to order chemicals like chlorine and CO2," Scott said. "Of course now, since we told most of our guards and staff that they might not open until July, some of them may have already found other jobs."

Now the city is putting together plans to get the pool open, but because of Ricketts’ original recommendation, they’re behind schedule.

"Normally we would have a lot more time to plan and order chemicals and we would know far in advance to order those chemicals," Scott said. "The only reason we didn't order them is because we didn't know if we would open at all with the way the previous [directed health measure] was worded."

Not only do chemicals have to be ordered and lifeguards trained. The city has to decide how to abide by the guidelines in place. At 25 percent capacity, only 82 people can be in the facility at any one time.

"We get a lot of calls from Sterling and other towns in Colorado that are wanting to know when our pool is going to open," Scott said. "So that's another problem we might have. We want our people to be able to go there and if we're limited to very few people in the pool, how do you manage that?"

COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in the city’s plans, but officials hope when July comes around, a pool opening will come with it.

"There's challenges, and we're working through those right now," Scott said. "I'm hopeful that by the Fourth of July weekend, we can have some sort of presence at the pool for people to enjoy."