"We Did It Mayor, We Did It!"

According to the Save Yost Pool website:

Yost Pool will open this summer!

On April 21, the mayor of Edmonds declared that Yost pool would indeed open this year. The efforts of our citizens to bridge the budget shortfall that the city was experiencing has paid off, as the city will not have to put any funds into the running of the pool for summer 2009.

As part of a three part solution to save the pool, the citizens proposed a plan to increase pool fees to market rate, revise the pool schedule and staffing, and fund raise to make opening the pool a reality this summer.

About 1,000 citizens contributed donations to the save Yost pool effort, totaling over $53,000.

A big 'Thank You' to all who came together to save Yost Pool.