The Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department will ask for more money in its 2022 budget to raise seasonal staff wages, including lifeguards, as pools and aquatic centers rely on long workweeks from lifeguards. “Something needs to change,” said Seth Campbell, a lifeguard at the Blaisdell pool. “Next year the fear is that there are going to be no returning guards.” The county was 83 lifeguards short of being appropriately staffed weeks before it prepared to open its eight aquatic centers and pools on Memorial Day.
Source: CJonline.com.
