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That’s an investigation into a proposed $25-million aquatics center for Salt Lake Park that was first announced in 2019 but so far has nothing to show except half a football field and a fenced-off field of dirt and dying grass.

“This is the Karina Macias legacy, you know?” the 36-year-old Flores told me as we walked around Salt Lake Park.

Flores said they and Macias initially sold him on the Salt Lake Park pool project.

But Macias did herself no favors when she insisted Efren Martinez had “zero involvement with” the Salt Lake Park pool project.

The loquacious Flores, a self-admitted “peleonero” — a fighter — who’s serving his first full term, showed up to Salt Lake Park in a Carhartt jacket embroidered with the city seal and his name.