PORT ANGELES — A new 11-member swimming pool oversight committee will recommend a new site and funding plan to the City Council by December.
The new group will have its first meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the public works conference room at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St.
City Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said the new committee is the next step in the pool siting process.
He said the new committee formalizes the pool renovation committee that has met intermittently since September 2001.
The new committee includes representatives from the City Council, Clallam County Family YMCA, Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, Port Angeles Swim Club and three city residents.
The city is studying four sites on city property between Fourth and Fifth streets and Lincoln and Peabody streets.
Clallam County Family YMCA also has proposed building a new pool to the south of its current building at 302 S. Francis St., across an existing alley.
Five to eight months
Cutler said the new committee will select one of the city’s four sites and compare it with the YMCA’s proposal at public meetings during the next five to eight months.
The group is scheduled to recommend either a city site, the YMCA site or possibly some other proposal, along with a funding plan, to the City Council by December, he said.
The committee has three City Council members: Mayor Richard Headrick, who will be chairman; Deputy Mayor Gary Braun, who will be vice chairman; and City Councilwoman Lauren Erickson.
It also has two other city board members: Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission Chairwoman Diana Tschimperle and Port Angeles Planning Commissioner Len Rasmussen.
The committee also includes YMCA board members Gary Holmquist and Randy Johnson, and Port Angeles Swim Club president Jim Hoine.
Its three at-large members are Peter Ripley, Don Fairburn and Linda Berglund.
