PORT ANGELES — The city will continue to manage the William Shore Memorial Pool through March on behalf of the metropolitan park district created last spring to fund the facility.
The William Shore Memorial Pool District commissioners Tuesday approved a three-month contract extension with the city that was included in Port Angeles’ 2010 budget approved by the City Council that evening.
Commission Chairman and City Council member Dan Di Guilio said the extension is needed to allow the park district time to either begin managing the pool itself or to contract that service to some entity other than the city.
Di Guilio said that only the Clallam County YMCA has submitted a bid to manage the pool.
The commissioners will consider acceptance of the bid on Jan. 5, he said.
The park district is reimbursing the city for the pool’s costs through Clallam County, which is loaning it money until it begins to receive property tax revenue next year.
The extension will add $500,000 to Port Angeles’ 2010 budget, all of which will be reimbursed.
At the meeting, the commissioners also approved a new agreement with the Port Angeles Swim Club that allows it to use the pool through the end of the school year.
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