The Royal Life-Saving Society is satisfied with the management of the Dickson Swimming Pool, according to its president, Justice Terence Higgins.
The pool’s manager was found unfit to be a public servant by a disciplinary appeal committee a fortnight ago over events surrounding his running of the Civic Olympic Pool.
The manager, Geoffrey McGibbon, ran the Civic pool for 18 years as a public servant in the ACT Administration before self-government.
Mr McGibbon is executive director of the ACT branch of the Royal Life-Saving Society of Australia. The society has a contract with the ACT Department of Sport for the management of the Dickson Pool.
Justice Higgins said yesterday, “”We are satisfied the pool is being run correctly.”
His society was anxious to hear about complaints about the pool.
“”Whenever they have arisen we have dealt with them to the satisfaction of the department and usually to the satisfaction of the complainant, though some people could never be satisfied.
He did not want to comment further because the disciplinary committee’s decision is being appealed to the Federal Court.
Mr McGibbon said yesterday that the appeal was definitely going ahead.
The ACT Department of Sport said it was monitoring the performance of swimming-pool management contracts. As with any public facility there were complaints from time to time. Dickson pool would close for the winter at the end of the month. The Department would report to the Minister and Chief Minister about the performance under the contract in about six weeks’ time.
The contract at Dickson would expire on September 30, 1996.
The only other pool under management contract was Manuka.