Park Board job posting from the Sunday, June 19, Star Tribune:
Public Info & Marketing Manager
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Develop & implement comprehensive communications & marketing plan for MPRB to increase public awareness of services, programs, activities and accomplishments, and to encourage involvement by users and stakeholders.
Includes media relations, strategic marketing & communications plans and materials; publications; issues management; supervise staff & budget; advise staff on approaches to ensure consistent inviting message.
REQ: Degree Journalism, Mass Communications, Public Relations, Marketing or closely related AND 5 yrs experience directing similar program in a complex organization. Knowledge of public sector values and efforts to improve services to the public. Salary: $65,000 – $75,000 yr.
APPLY: Letter of Intent & resume by 7-8-05 to: Mary Page, HR Manager, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board 2117 West River Road N; Mpls MN 55411
Email: mpage@minneapolisparks.org
See full description on our Website: www.minneapolisparks.org
Minneapolis Park Watch 
It seems that Superintendent Gurban’s insistence on confronting Jason Stone has created a large public relations nightmare for the MPRB. This is unfortunate because in order to balance the budget cuts were made in the public relations area….. ( from the mplsparkwatch.org archives)
To solve that imbalance, the new proposed cuts are:
1. Eliminate the Jump In brochure and add $10,000 to Recreation budgets to publicize programs (net reduction of $40,000).
2. Contractual reductions for public relations, archives, historian and youth sports ($28,000).
So they cut $40,000 and $28,000 to balance the budget ($68,000) and now they are going to spend $65,000-$75,000 because the Superintendent makes incredibly bad choices. Superintendent Gurban has proved to be an expensive choice that may also lead to expensive legal liabilities as well if the ACLU does become involved. This seems to be a pattern with Superintendent Gurban. He also set his former employers the Minnesota Recreation and Park Association up for legal troubles with the Minnesota Gambling Control Board ( yes the pulltab fiasco ). His supervisory oversights were blatant if one reads the reports (see this website for the reports)
This choice and many others being made are threatening our system almost as badly as Dutch Elm Disease is threatening our Urban Forest. We need to start thinking about electing some better commissioners to replace the BIG BAD 5….Fine, Dziedzic, Olson, Kummer and Hauser.