Pasadena : Candidate Search Widens
The board of the troubled Rose Bowl Aquatics Center bowed to City Council pressure Tuesday and agreed to seek new applicants in its 8-month-old search for a new executive director.
The swimming facility, with Olympic-quality racing and diving pools, is in default on a $4-million city loan, and is under fire from black groups because teen-age summer employees alleged that they were subjected to racial harassment.
The search for a replacement for Terry Wilson, who resigned as executive director in January, had been narrowed to three candidates, two of them minorities. But council members charged that the nature of the search so far had virtually dictated the selection of the third candidate, who is white.
Councilman Rick Cole said Tuesday that the minority candidates, neither of whom had the experience in program development that the board listed as a prime requirement for the job, appeared to be “window dressing rather than serious candidates.
The council will take up a plan to restructure the aquatic center’s debt and will examine the allegations of racial harassment in three weeks.
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