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Supervisors hear appeals to restore recreation‑director hires as budget office defends holdbacks
Summary
Supervisors heard pleas from rec staff, parents and unions to reinstate hiring of vacant recreation‑director positions after Mayor's office canceled older requisitions amid a roughly $229 million city deficit. Budget staff said the department lacks a hiring list and is preparing a staffing allocation plan; the committee forwarded the resolution with recommendation.
Supervisor Tom Ammiano opened the discussion on a resolution urging the mayor to reinstate hiring for vacant recreation‑director positions, saying he was "very concerned about the short staffing of our rec centers essential to running the rec and parks." He framed the issue as both a neighborhood and violence‑prevention priority.
Denny Kern of the Recreation and Parks Department told the committee that the FY 2007–08 authorized complement included roughly 196 budgeted recreation‑director and assistant director positions and that an 11 percent attrition holdback left about 174 fundable field FTEs in…
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