The Opp City council has a long “wish list” of projects it hopes to accomplish in 2012, among those are street repair, new bathrooms and looking at purchasing the cotton mill pool, it said Monday night.

Councilman Scotty Short said he’d like to see street resurfacing and patching in District 1, as well as seeing remodeled bathrooms at the baseball field.

“They are in pretty terrible shape,” he said.

District 2 Councilman Jimmy Rogers echoed Short.

“I think we should maybe let each councilman make a list of the worst streets in the district,” he said. “Then, when we do get some money, we can fix the worst streets, no matter where it is.”

In District 4, Councilman Davy Lindsey said he too would like to improve streets.

“On Barnes Street, there are some places that are not in good condition,” Lindsey said. “It needs smoothing out and some maintenance to make it more passable.”

District 5 Councilman Oren Stewart said he’d like to see new striping placed on Opp’s most frequented streets.

“At night, the lines in the middle of the road are hard to see,” Stewart said. “I’d also like to see what we can do about 84 going out to Andalusia, where 84 enters the bypass. It’s dark. You have to be sure you know where you’re going.

“Maybe we could talk to Covington Electric about putting a light there,” he said.

City Planner Don Childre said it is a tenth of a mile from the last pole to the bypass.

“We’ve repaired a request for DOT, but we never heard anything back,” he said.

The council agreed to seek out all their options.

Also on the list from Rogers was possibly purchasing the old mill’s pool.

“I had Hammer Construction looking at the cotton mill pool,” he said. “It will cost $4,000 to $5,000 to remove the asbestos from there. And we could possibly purchase it for $50,000 – maybe a little cheaper. I was hoping we might could get it, if we could find out ways to pay for it. I’ve had mothers in District 4 call me and they say their pool is crowded.”

Additionally, Lindsey said he’d like to see some improvements made to the Hardin Street Community Center and to make the Hardin Street Pool Activity Center more presentable.

Mayor H.D. Edgar said he’d like to get to work on the Depot “right away.”

“I know we don’t have a lot of money,” he said. “But I’d like to see us do what we can do.”