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LOREM IPSUM DOLOR
CONSEQUAT VENIAM NOSTRUD
ASHLAND RECALL
Parks and Recreation Commissioners
Mike Gardiner
Jim Lewis
Rick Landt
RECALL
Personnel Mismanagement
The #2 Reason for the Recall of Ashland Parks Commissioners
APRC mismanages personnel. For example, they laid off effective, well-qualified staff at the Senior Center and replaced them with unqualified parks employees, thus endangering our seniors’ well-being.
APRC laid off the entire well-qualified Senior Center staff, who had a combined total of 72 years of experience helping seniors, for no justified reason.
A senior recently asked Ashland SOS “What was the problem in the first place that led APRC to get into this?”
APRC never defined a problem. Their initial statement of what they were doing was based on financial concerns, we need to generate more revenue, and underserved population which they never established or identified. So basically the problem was something they created. Responsible public servants you would think would proceed for any challenge in a way that you would identify the problem and the need through public surveys and input ... and then from that design goals and specific objectives. Then you design a plan about how to carry out your objectives to solve the problem ... then give the public adequate time for review and comments. They did not do any of that. They still don’t have clear goals and objectives, and they never defined a problem. APRC has lost the public’s trust.
The video below shows an interview with Christine Dodson that describes the local integrated social service program that the Ashland senior program lost when the Parks commissioners laid off the entire senior center staff, including Christine Dodson. The senior program was considered successful for 43 years. The laid off staff had a combined experience in senior social services totalling 72 years. They were all Ashland residents and knew the community well by residing in it over ten years each and 130 years combined residency.
The layoff action by the commissioners dismantled the effective and cost efficient local services rendered by the senior program. Since the layoff social services have been scaled back and no local outreach services are available by the senior center staff. This, in part, led citizens to initiate a recall effort on three commissioners.
We can immediately restore the lost social services by rehiring the laid off staff. By endorsing the recall we hope to replace the majority of commissioners to increase the chances for rehire.
APRC's actions exposes taxpayers to liabilities
Cease and Desist letters and Supplemental Notice of Tort Claim
Read for yourself the tort claim notice and "cease and desist" letters sent to City behalf of laid off senior manager
Rally and Public Input at the last meeting of the APRC Senior Advisory Committee meeting, March 12, 2018