Dear Menlo Park City Council Members,
AFSCME is writing you to express our concerns about a new position in the budget for the Senior Program Assistant for the Recreation Department. As you may remember, last summer the AFSCME position for special events, a Recreation Coordinator, was eliminated. We had hoped that as things returned to normal, the positions lost during the pandemic would also be brought back. A special event Program Assistant has been proposed to bring back events to the City. We believe this is short-sighted for several reasons:
1. A study done by Koff and Associates in 2015 deemed that the Recreation Coordinator classification was accurate for this role and job duties, and this was before adding several events to the line-up.
2. The City has a goal to have large-scale events by December, and the Performance Center by July. These kinds of events take months of applications, permitting, and planning. Some of the permitting duties have already been absorbed by other coordinators.
3. The Special Events Rec Coordinator offers a level of expertise and complexity to outside events involving community partners, grants, sponsors, and permits and moving forward COVID compliance.
Also attached is a detailed description of the work that use to be done and presumably will continue to be done sometime in the near future.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Ashley Mates
She/her
Staff Representative
AFSCME District Council 57
ashley.mates@ca.afscme57.org
https://www.afscme57.org/
cell: 510-220-7992
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