YMCA Will Not Manage the Pool
The Clallam County Family YMCA Board has withdrawn its proposal to manage the William Shore Memorial Pool.
Board President Laurel Black said the decision was a result of a contract disagreement and opposition from the advisory committee of the Metropolitan Park District.
Board President Laurel Black said the decision was a result of a contract disagreement and opposition from the advisory committee of the Metropolitan Park District.
posted by Tom Harper at 6:21 PM
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It is a real shame that a small group of "advisory board" members and friends of the current pool employees would distort the truth and fabricate outright lies, trying to ruin the reputation of a dedicated, community volunteer like Gary Holmquist, who is only trying his best to make sure our community is able to keep a public pool open. The City cut it loose (but didn't cut their take of the taxes used to keep it running) because it cost so much more money than it took in, and now the advisory board wants to set up a whole new public bureacracy, using the new tax we voted to add onto ourselves, to run it themselves, instead of letting a proven high quality, non-profit community organization like the YMCA operate it for the public benefit. SHAME!
Port Angeles, at it's best.
Interesting to note the "problem" they are wrestling with, in part, are the "dropping property values" that with result in reduced tax revenues.
Why are property values dropping? Is there a problem in boom town Port Angeles?
That is certainly a very brief article. Go Daily News go!
property values dropping my ASS. They haven't dropped them. I'm valuated several hundred thousand over my last appraisal, and they didn't want to hear it, and the appeal did nothing.
shut the pool down.....we have way bigger problems to solve
http://peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100225/NEWS/302259990
there is the full article. The other link was just a so-called "breaking news" link.
Nothing to do with this post but I just got the word (if it's true) that there will be a big up tick in the price of lumber March 1st.
So if any of you have projects planned you may want to get the lumber soon.
First anon poster: What the heck was up with YMCA that they came in with such an outrageously inflated bid at the first go round? That is what put a sour taste in people's mouths. And then they revised it down?
I do not know anything about Gary Holmquist. No good deed goes unpunished it seems.
Generally -
Were people expecting something NOT bureaucratic when they voted for a government levy on their property tax? If so, take a long look in the mirror and tell yourself you will never be so naive as to vote for a tax for yourself ever again!
If you want something, you go out, get like minded people to rally the town, hold fund raisers and self support. I gave money when they were trying to keep it alive. I want a pool, but leaving anything to the boobs in our city is a foolish endeavor.
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