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Parks director credits recruitment push for improved hiring; committee presses for clearer park-permit rules and adopt-a-park staffing
Summary
Director Laura Thielen told the Budget Committee the Department of Parks and Recreation improved hiring performance in FY24 and early FY25 and described outreach strategies. Members pressed the department on field permitting transparency, standards for community maintenance and the adopt-a-park program.
Department of Parks and Recreation Director Laura Thielen told the Committee on Budget that the department substantially improved its hiring metrics, moving from the slowest to the fastest hiring department across six measures in FY24 and hiring 116 people that year. Thielen said the department hired 85 people in the first six months of FY25 and reduced average time-to-hire from 49 days to about 41 days.
"We moved from being the worst department at hiring on all 6 measures, to the number 1 hiring department in the entire city," Thielen said, describing outreach including job fairs, social media, Work Hawaii partnerships and targeted training to meet…
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