Your Board of Directors of Crook County Parks and Recreation is so grateful (and exhausted) as we close in on the final days of finding a new executive director. We are pretty excited, as our final three contenders for the position were of such high quality that any one of them could be a success. We have so many people to thank. Bob Keefer and Teri Dresler from Special Districts Association of Oregon (SDAO) were our consultants in the recruitment process. We truly could not have done our work without them and their resources. We ended up with 27 applications for the position, some from as far away as Florida and South Carolina. Who knew that so many people wanted to come to work for Parks and Rec in tiny Prineville! It made us proud.
We also want to thank our staff, who smiled through extra work, expert planning and gracious hosting of our final three candidates. They always make us look good, and we are especially grateful for their extra efforts.
Our city and county partners – chamber, fairgrounds, commissioners and planners – gave us a full day to meet our top three. Thank you so much. Since we work so closely with our partners to keep our growing community based in the values we treasure and healthy for all its citizens, we wanted their input on the person whose leadership would be most complimentary to their own. We value their opinion and appreciate their time.
We also want to thank you. We are so grateful for all who turned up on a cold, rainy evening to meet our final candidates and help to advise us. Your comments and opinions on our final choices were extremely helpful. You validated our choices, which is especially important in a close-knit community like ours.
We will have an announcement in the coming days. Look for it.
Meanwhile, our programming continues: register for the Daddy-Daughter Dance right away. Indoor soccer, karate and dog obedience continue; yoga begins soon. We have suspended firearm safety classes for the time being as the courts sort out the permit certification process. Check our website for details on all programs.
