PORT ANGELES — While swim classes and other programs at Port Angeles’ public pool are expected to remain the same once the William Shore Memorial Pool District takes on full operation of the facility next month, one change will be visible: the facility’s logo.
The commissioners of the metropolitan park district unanimously approved Tuesday, with commissioner Pat Downie absent, the selection of a new symbol that will replace the one used by the city.
The logo, which depicts a water drop with the words “William Shore Pool,” was sketched by Tom Bock, secretary of the park district’s advisory committee.
Thirteen proposed logos were submitted by pool users and supporters of the William Shore Memorial Pool.
Jayna Lafferty, pool manager, said the new logo will be up at the pool soon. She didn’t have a more precise estimate.
Lafferty, like all pool workers, will officially become employees of the park district June 1. That’s when the city will stop managing the pool on the park district’s behalf.
The pool will be closed for about three weeks in June for maintenance.
The park district took over ownership of the pool from the city last June, but has paid the city to manage the facility while it organized.
Interim pool manager
Lafferty will act as interim pool manager for the rest of the year until a permanent manager is chosen.
The position will be advertised.
At the Tuesday meeting, her husband, Doug Lafferty, requested that the commissioners hire her rather than going through the ap;hiring process. Jayna Lafferty has said she wants to keep the job.
Doug Lafferty — who cited the uncertainty the family has faced over whether she will keep her job since the city announced in September 2008 that it would no longer fund the pool — said his wife had shown she is more than qualified by maintaining a positive work environment when the fate of the pool was uncertain, increasing attendance, and for helping get the effort to save the pool off the ground.
“I ask you to do what is morally right,” he said.
Mike Chapman, commission chairman, said after the meeting that Jayna Lafferty has done a “great job” but added that the park district needs to keep its options open for such an important position.
Lafferty’s job is the only pool position for which the park district is seeking applicants.
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Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.com.
