WESTBROOK – A longtime manager of the Davan Pool at the Fred C. Wescott Building has lost her position as part of budget cuts.

Lisa Wohl has been the aquatic director for the city for more than 25 years, said City Administrator Jerre Bryant, first for the school district, and then as a city position after the new middle school opened on Stroudwater Street. Her last day is April 15.

Her duties, Bryant said, will now be shared by other pool employees.

Wohl did not return a call seeking comment before deadline.

Bryant said the eliminated position would save the city $58,447 and the savings were factored into the 2011-2012 budget presented at the April 4 City Council meeting. While the budget has not been approved yet, the position will remain eliminated regardless of the council’s action on the budget, Bryant said.

Bryant said the city has been laying off workers for the past several years, but this year, Bryant said, the city managed to avoid large numbers of actual layoffs.

Many positions, he said, were eliminated that were not filled, and other city employees were transferred to other departments to avoid layoffs. Other than one part-time clerk who declined to take a position elsewhere in the city, Bryant said, Wohl’s was the only position where an actual layoff was unavoidable.

“No one else was out the door,” he said.

The 2011-12 municipal budget is in the hands of the city’s Finance Committee, which is expected to submit the budget, along with any of its additional recommendations, to the full City Council for a first official reading on May 2. Then, on May 9, the council will be expected to approve the combined municipal/school budget. The school budget will then go to a referendum vote, but Bryant said the municipal budget should be final with the council’s May 9 vote.

It is possible, Bryant said, that the Finance Committee, or the council itself could recommend or order additional cuts, but if that doesn’t happen, the layoffs will be over for the municipal side of the budget.