The City Manager SOLD the Council on this new guy for the Rec dept, saying this guy may not know much, but he DOES have several friends to ask when our problems arent easily resolved, and THEY might know! This guy is a salesman and its obvious he has sold the City Manager. The guy had ten years Rec experience and a Rec degree 25 years ago. He has sold rec equipment as his private business for the past 20 years or so. Gym has vouched for him and says if he doesnt work out, Gym will let him go. The salary is 89k plus benefits, 100k in total. There was NOTHING said about this guy having ANY experience managing people, organizing programs and events, budgeting, or coordinating recreation construction projects with the needs of the residents- all skills THIS guy will need. I hope Gym is right about this guy, but if he isnt, shouldnt we just fire Gym too? Or just chalk it up to ANOTHER example of poor judgement on his part? The good news is that this time we may actually get a construction contract that has protections for the City built into it, like deadlines and penalties for not meeting those deadlines! Hooray for us! We are apparently hiring real attorneys for this project, at considerable expense, but at least they will be accountable for this contract. Also good news, Sosa donated another 1.5 million to the City - however that money was immediately allocated to build a couple more bathrooms on the Circle. After considerable debate, one million was designated for both bathrooms and the other 500k was held in reserve, just in case electrical, water, and sewer hookups became necessary.