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Kenai residents urge city to help keep Kenai Central High School pool open
Summary
Parents, swimmers and pool staff told the Kenai City Council July 2 that the Kenai Central pool is a community lifeline and asked the city to work with the school district or consider funding options after the district said it might stop hiring pool managers beyond next year.
Dozens of Kenai residents told the Kenai City Council on July 2 that the Kenai Central High School pool serves as a public-safety and community-health resource and urged city leaders to help prevent its closure if the school district discontinues pool manager positions after next year. Speakers asked the council to begin talks with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and consider a formal resolution supporting the pools.
The appeals began during unscheduled public comment with Sarah Castemore, a parent of students who use district pools, who recapped the recent district budget deliberations that briefly removed five pool‑manager positions and then restored them at a June 26 finance committee meeting for one additional year. “This gives us time to find a solution,” Castemore said, and she urged the city to engage now so communities are not left scrambling if the district declines to renew contracts next summer.
Pool manager William Hubler, who said he has run the Kenai…
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