Forming a Parks District to Save the Pool
About two hundred people met last Friday night to come up with a way to save William Shore Memorial Pool.
Three possibilities are: raising donations; forming partnerships with Peninsula College and the Coast Guard, which uses the pool for training purposes; and creating a parks district. The parks district (proposed by County Commissioner Mike Chapman) was the most popular idea.
This is the method Sequim uses for funding the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center.
If this parks district is formed, it will be able to levy up to 75 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value without a public vote. The owner of a $200,000 home would pay an additional $150 per year. But the parks district itself can only be formed with approval from voters.
This vote would take place in a special election this February.
For updates on saving the pool, write to savethepoolpa@hotmail.com.
Three possibilities are: raising donations; forming partnerships with Peninsula College and the Coast Guard, which uses the pool for training purposes; and creating a parks district. The parks district (proposed by County Commissioner Mike Chapman) was the most popular idea.
This is the method Sequim uses for funding the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center.
If this parks district is formed, it will be able to levy up to 75 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value without a public vote. The owner of a $200,000 home would pay an additional $150 per year. But the parks district itself can only be formed with approval from voters.
This vote would take place in a special election this February.
For updates on saving the pool, write to savethepoolpa@hotmail.com.
Labels: Port Angeles pool parks district, Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center
posted by Tom Harper at 8:11 PM
15 Comments:
EXCUSE ME??????
I DON"T THINK SO!!
I pay enough taxes already...and I don't use the frickin' pool!
USER PAY!!!
GRRRRR!!!!!
it wouldn't be so bad if the county hadn't over estimated the values of the homes and skyrocketed the taxes....
make them go pound sand.
It's unthinkable for a town this size to not have a public swimming pool. For a lot of elderly people, or people with injuries, swimming is the most therapeutic exercise and often the only exercise that isn't too strenuous. For these people it isn't a matter of recreation.
Whatever it takes to pay for it, do it. Higher taxes, higher fees, whatever.
YOU pay for it.
I don't use it.
Increased taxes are NOT the answer. This problem is a result of the mismanagement of the city of Port Angeles budget and should not be shouldered by the taxpayers of PA.
Aditionally, asking the Coast Guard to help with this bail-out is not a viable option either. The Coast Guard has a contract with the pool and pays for the time that is uses just like everyone else who uses the pool. It's a community pool, not a federal pool - fix this problem PA.
Once again, this problem reflects poorly on the management of our town and the incompetance of a select few.
PS: The bus terminal looks like a million bucks, wait, make that 14 million. (sarcasm).
What, more taxes?!
We're over burdened with taxes out the ying-yang and now it's someone's bright idea to make us pay ... wait for it ... more taxes!!!
Hmm, shouldn't this have been something that the HEAD OF PUBLIC WORKS should be brought on the carpet for? Isn't his job to keep our public services operational and open?
Oh, but WAIT...he was the one to push for the Gateway, both bridges, the new sewer/sidewalks for downtown, blah blah blah.
Bit off more than we could afford? Yeah, who made that decision?
We have a LOT of incompetent, self serving nincompoops trying to make names for themselves at our expense.
But hey! We get a big expensive sign "welcome to the USA" for the Canadians, a bunch of ugly rusted vaguely human art (and more on the way!!) a big TRANSIT HUB for buses that hardly go anywhere(Jefferson Transit kicks our Clallam Transit's tailpipes!) and at twice the cost.
We have less of those pesky trees downtown (how many were taken out with this last glut of street work?). We have a nice new SEWER system to Walmart can build a big new mega money grubbing center (and leave the white elephant on the hill that will stay vacant for EVER). Oh yeah, and we have a downtown cop with a seq-dork-way.
But, we're just the morons the city comes to for more money...they don't serve us.....isn't that obvious?
save the Poo Lpa?
What kind of url is that?
....you're kidding..save the POO?
More taxes only if we let it happen...vote NO when formation of a "Parks District" comes up on the ballot!!!
As the price of energy continues to climb, it is everyone's responsibility to look for phantom loads and unneeded appliances etc.
Just for starters I believe one thing that can and should be done is for the City to turn off many of the streetlights around town.
This is a bit off topic, but I heard this morning that construction on the Gateway bus stop has stopped because "the inspectors got picky" ... or something like that. Can anyone confirm this?
I haven't heard about that but nothing is surprising at this point.
Well, I KNOW there have been a lot of electricians around...since it was discovered that the Gateway wasn't hooked up to it's own circuit like it was supposed to be (not shared with Dairy Queen). It caused a big chunk of the brickwork to be torn off one day. Then there have been people poking around...that don't look like they're part of the construction crews.
I'd say that there are some big boooo boooos, but it's just a guess.
If we shutter the pool, think of how much more money we can give Madsen and the Incubator! Priorities, man, priorities!
let us nominate Glen Cutler to city Czar....then we may all bow to the gracious majesty who bestowed upon us all that is Gateway Center, and the holy buses which will grace its oddly uncomplimentary architecture and faux (Disneyland?) brickwork. It makes the rest of downtown obviously shabby, and unkempt. All hail our leader, Cutler, who will save us from the pool, the bubble building, and a balanced budget and put us further in debt with his "want it now" demanding ways.
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