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Why hasn't the work been put in! I see a lot of people blaming the county for failing to hire coaches. If the teams manager and the rec manager were aware of the staffing problem, which has been going on for years, and aware of the limited rec offerings, which has been going on for years, why where these FULL TIME EMPLOYEES not working on these issue. The program has just been canceling rec classes for years due to short staffing and the attitude is "why didn't DPR hire more coaches for us" or "why didn't DPR tell us this was a problem"? Take some accountability. The program was being poorly run, clearly.

I think you also need to understand that from the perspective of tax payers, it doesn't matter whose fault it is that the program is in the hole. [b]It could be DPR's fault, it could be the program's own mismanagement.[/b] It's likely a combination of both. If you are a county tax payer who cares about the budget and are not invested in a county gymnastics program (which is most tax payers), all that matters is fixing the error. DPR is proposing cutting the program. That fixes the problem. if the program wants to fix itself, you need an explanation for why more was not done to address these obvious issues sooner. Did the program management really not understand that the program has been bleeding hundreds of thousands of dollars for years? And if they did know, did they really not see the urgency in needing to address that issue? I don't get it, I really don't.

It sounds like the program got complacent and figured the county would continue to cover their big shortage forever, and made no effort to address it. That really bugs me.[/quote]

I’m not sure I’m understanding your complaint right, DPR is the one who manages the program. More and more so recently. It used to be managed much more internally by people who were also coaches. 
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So much buck passing. The program has two full time management positions, yes? A competitive team manager and a recreational team manager. Presumable these are people who want the program to succeed.

Why didn't the people in those roles take actions to address the staffing shortage? If I were in that role and didn't have enough staff to meet demand for classes, I'd be reaching out to DPR constantly asking about where we were on hiring, and explaining clearly how much money we were leaving on the table by failing to staff additional classes, until they either hired me staff or gave me responsibility and budget to hire staff myself.

If I knew of qualified coaches who were applying to the program and never hearing back, I would be contact hiring managers and DPR and asking what was going on and letting them know we desperately need staff and know of people who had submitted applications, but they weren't hearing back.

It sounds like the competition team manager was successfully doing what had to be done to keep the competition team going. Why wasn't more effort being made on the rec side to build out staff and improve enrollment numbers? If they weren't doing that, what was this person doing, especially when apparently they weren't coaching? I am baffled. Where is this person? Why isn't there some accountability there?[/quote]

The competitive team manager only started in December the.position was vacant for over a year before that (see my post on multiple interviews but no one getting hired). The program manager waa doing both jobs.

But yes. I agree otherwise[/quote]

I will add it does sound like somethings were tried but it went into a upper management/hr black hole. Why no one kept pushing? Folks may have been worried about job security because folks have been pushed out in the past[/quote]

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