Pasco to create fund and staff operations for new Pasco Aquatic Center; mayor to issue reading-month proclamation

The city will ask the Pasco City Council on Monday to create an aquatics center fund and to authorize the city to manage operations and staffing of the newly named Pasco Aquatic Center, the program moderator said.

The moderator said the Pasco Public Facilities District will pay the city to manage the center. That management role includes hiring and training lifeguards and ensuring operating funds are directed to day-to-day facility management. To ensure the money flows to operations rather than other accounts, staff will ask councilors to establish a dedicated aquatics center fund.

In addition, the moderator said Mayor Charles Grimm will present a proclamation recognizing March as National Reading Month at the March 2 regular city council meeting.

The council is scheduled to consider the aquatics fund and any related management agreement at the next regular meeting; the moderator did not provide vote timing or dollar amounts.