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LITTLE CANADA PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 515 Little Canada Road / Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 Telephone: (612) 484 -2177 / Fax: 484 -4538 JIM MORELAN, Director JACK FITZGERALD, Asst. Director MICHELLE DeBACE, Program Coordinator MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Jim Morelan, Parks & Recreation Director DATE: November 8, 1996 RE: Hiring of Program Coordinator Interviews have been completed on the candidates for the position of Parks & Recreation Program Coordinator. They were conducted by Michelle DeBace, Jack Fitzgerald, and myself. Advertisement for the position was done via the Review, Cable Channel 16, and posting at City Hall. Six applications were received. Interviews were conducted on five of the applicants. At the conclusion of the interviews, we felt that two of the applicants met most of the qualifications and warranted further consideration. After checking references on those two candidates, Michelle, Jack, and I met again and unanimously agreed that Don Bowman would do the best job for the department. Don has extensive previous experience in the area of organizing and coaching both youth and adult programs, and purchasing uniforms and athletic equipment. He also has already had the benefit of being involved in Little Canada programs as coach, official, and parent. Additionally, Don is well acquainted with the Maplewood Parks & Recreation Department. He has worked with them as an official, coordinator of officials, and coach. This established relationship will be of great value to us as many of our youth athletic programs are coordinated by or conducted with Maplewood. None of the people interviewed had all of the desired qualifications. However, Don possessed those deemed most important. One of the areas of desired criteria that Don could not meet was availability to spend time in the office during weekday, daytime hours He has a full-time job with the St. Paul Water Utility Department. It was discussed in the past that the presence of someone in the office during the daytime may reduce some of my workload and eliminate the handling of many routine phone calls by myself. While that may be true of someone who could spend a substantial part of the day in the office, we concluded after further thought that the amount of time that a person in this position could be here during the day would be of little benefit in that regard. The position is budgeted based on approximately 15 hours per week and the majority of hours need to be spent during evenings and weekends when most of the programs are being conducted. I felt that more dedication of existing office staff to the Parks & Recreation Department would be much more efficient in achieving some of these previously discussed goals. Page 29