The Parks & Recreation Director has conducted a thorough evaluation of existing resources and department needs and has determined there is a need to abolish one (1) Recreation Superintendent position and one (1) Parks Superintendent position, and to add two (2) Park Worker II positions, one (1) Recreation and Event Manager, and one (1) Recreation and Event Coordinator position. 

The combination of these changes will allow us to handle additional responsibilities of maintaining baseball and softball fields in parks throughout the City in addition to the ones at the Recreation Complex.  Further, it will allow us to handle the additional responsibilities of mowing and snow removal of all City-owned property.  It will also allow us to continue to maintain and potentially increase our effectiveness of managing and scheduling our special events and outdoor recreation activities.  We attempted to outsource the development, management and coordination of an outdoor programming and promotion plan for Tom Hanafan Park and other parks within the City, but were unsuccessful.  We expected those costs to be ~$70,000-100,000.  With these changes, we will no longer allocate any funding for that purpose.

This is an ideal time to make the requested changes because both of the positions to be abolished are vacant.  In addition, the net financial impact of these changes as well as the reduction in dollars allocated for event programming and promotion, is a cost savings of ~$50,000-80,000 annually.