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Parks staff outline lifeguard recruitment and retention plan ahead of 2025 season

2494179 · March 4, 2025
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Milwaukee County Parks reported outreach, training, and retention measures aimed at rebuilding its lifeguard corps for 2025; staff said recruitment events, media outreach and incentive partnerships have produced new hires and training classes.

Milwaukee County Parks presented an aquatics staffing update to the Personnel Committee on March 4, outlining recruitment, training and retention activities intended to staff pools for the 2025 season.

Andrea Wallace, assistant director of Recreation and Business Services for Milwaukee County Parks, told the committee Parks staff had visited more than 62 recruitment sites — including high schools and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee — and had active media outreach, including a…

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