PORT ANGELES — The process of determining where the city’s new swimming pool will be located took another lap Thursday during an open house held at Vern Burton Community Center.
Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said the city is currently compiling data from the recent swimming pool survey and will reveal its findings in the next few weeks.
Cutler told a crowd of about 50 people that a decision on where to build the new community swimming pool could be made at a special City Council meeting in April.
The city sent out 1,000 pool surveys to randomly selected residents in January and has received 350 responses. They needed 200 responses for the survey’s results to be valid, Cutler said.
City officials also are meeting next week with Harry Dorssers of Concept Dorssers of Seattle about his proposed private swimming pool development at the Port of Port Angeles’ Oak Street site, Cutler said.
$12.3 million for new pool
The city’s current pool, William Shore Memorial, 225 E. Fifth St., was built in 1961.
The city has proposed building a $12.3 million swimming pool with aquatic center features on Peabody Street next to City Hall in what is now a parking lot between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Clallam County Family YMCA has proposed a virtually identical aquatic center-type pool as part of a recreation complex at its headquarters at 302 S. Francis St.
The proposed aquatic centers would be almost double the size of the current swimming pool, including 12 swimming lanes instead of six and two diving boards instead of one.
It also would have a leisure pool, party room, 3,000-square-foot training area and the same programs as the current pool.
Public vote required
Cutler said a $12.3 million, 20-year bond to finance the project, which would require a public vote, would cost the owner of a $150,000 home an extra $114 a year.
