PORT ANGELES — The city is going to build a new swimming pool — that decision has been made.
Now it is matter of where, when and how the swimming pool is built, and how much it will cost, Clallam County Family YMCA board president Ray Gruver told about 25 people Wednesday night at the YMCA building.
Wednesday’s meeting was designed to gather neighborhood comment about the Y’s proposal to build a new pool in partnership with the city at the YMCA building at 302 S. Francis St.
“The more I look at it, the more excited I get,” YMCA Executive Director Dan Maguire told the crowd.
The city currently subsidizes its aging William Shore swimming pool with $300,000 from the general fund every year, Maguire said.
A swimming pool built or operated by the YMCA — or in combination with the city — could substantially reduce that subsidy from the taxpayers, he said.
Public pool pioneers
The YMCA built the nation’s first swimming pools and offered the nation’s first swimming lessons, Maguire said.
About 2,000 YMCAs operate community swimming pools, he said.