The Department of Parks and Recreation shall be headed by the Director of Parks and Recreation. No person shall be appointed Director of Parks and Recreation unless he/she have been actively engaged on a full-time basis as a Director or similar level in Parks and Recreation activities for a minimum period of five (5) years or more prior to his/her appointment. In addition, an individual appointed to the position of Director of Parks and Recreation must have at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Parks Administration, Public Administration. A Master’s Degree in Park or Recreation Administration or Public Administration is preferred.
The Director of Parks and Recreation shall have charge of the Department of Parks and Recreation.
The Director of Parks and Recreation shall have the control and management of parks, park entrances, parkways, children's playgrounds, public recreation facilities, gymnasiums, swimming pools, playfields, or indoor recreational centers, and any lands or buildings set aside for park or recreational use by the public, and the acquisition, construction, repair, and maintenance thereof. The Director shall create and supervise all Recreational Programs for the City of Brunswick. The Director shall exercise exclusively all the powers and perform all the duties, in regard to such property, vested in and imposed upon the Director of Public Service by the statutes of the State of Ohio. The Director of Parks and Recreation shall have the responsibility for expenditures of all monies appropriated by the legislative authority of the City in the Parks Fund or received from any other source for the purchase, acquisition, improvement, maintenance, equipment, or enjoyment of all property under his/her control, but no liability shall be incurred or expenditure made unless the money required therefore is in the Treasury to the credit of the Park and Recreation Fund and not appropriated for any other purpose.
The Director of Parks and Recreation may employ recreational supervisors, engineers, clerks, and other necessary employees for carrying Into effect the purposes of the Department's creation, and the Council shall fix the compensation and term of service of such employees within its appropriation.
The Director of Parks and Recreation, in letting of contracts, shall be governed by the bidding procedures of this Charter. (Amended 11-8-05; 11-2-10; 11-3-15)