Look for some heated discussions at Dearborn City Hall in the coming weeks as several pools and library branches are now on the chopping block, actions city leaders will need to take to wrestle down a $20 million budget deficit.

These are both hot topics with residents and it will be interesting to see if the City Council is up to making the tough decisions that need to happen in our city.

Snow Library on the west side and the Esper branch on the east side are the current branches in the crosshairs of the city, according to the Dearborn Press & Guide Henry Ford Centennial and Bryant Library will not be touched as they were donated to the city by Ford and are required to remain libraries or they would revert back to Ford Land ownership, Mayor John O’Reilly told the paper.

As for pools, it appears Ten Eycke, Whitmore Bolles, Lapeer, Crowley and Hemlock are on the endangered list.

Pool usage and geography will be the determining factors for what pools will remain, according to the paper.

“The ones that look to be the most likely for staying open start with Dunworth,” O’Reilly told the Press & Guide. “That’s one that’s not proposed for any cuts or closure – and Ford Woods in the east end. Then after that, the next highest in location and usage is Summer-Stephens and then after that we get into a whole other situation where geography really factors in more.”

O’Reilly told the paper that Crowley and Lapeer are the highest priority to keep open because they are located in neighborhoods hemmed in by major roads.

“The goal is to provide reasonable access to everyone,” O’Reilly told the Press & Guide.