According to the Lancaster Bee:
Lancaster Councilman Ronald Ruffino put forth a resolution at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Town Board to formally investigate its options to begin the process of appointing a part-time temporary recreation director.
Ruffino said there have been complaints lodged about the department and that he believes adding the position could alleviate some of those issues. The councilman said actions such as these need to be taken when “you start seeing any type of slippage in services.”
Following the meeting, Ruffino noted that the resolution had not been removed because he doubted the competence of Kelleher, but rather that the town needed to explore more options before making an appointment.
Until a resolution is submitted and approved by the board, and unless Mr. Ruffino (resolution sponsor) clearly defines the contents and need for this hiring, he deserves some slack. For whatever reason causing him to withdraw the initial resolution to do further study and consider ‘options’, he did so.
He will receive enough grief should this hiring smack of patronage and/or be considered one of non necessity because of current staffing poor performance and lack of management leadership in addressing the reasons for the diminishment in services