OCEAN CITY – Resort officials this week agreed to create a new Recruitment, Inclusion and Diversity position, but not before a very frank and lengthy discussion of race and equality issues.
Over the past year or so, the Town of Ocean City has struggled with recruiting employees for a variety of reasons. In November, the council voted to unanimously to start the process of hiring a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) position and directed staff to begin crafting a job description. On a parallel course, town officials were also exploring a second potential recruiting, retention and inclusion (RRI) job description.
On Tuesday, City Manager Terry McGean presented to the Mayor and Council a single job description that would be able to handle both of the aforementioned positions. McGean explained recruiting would be the primary focus of the new position and suggested reaching out to previously untapped and under-represented communities close by to recruit and round out a diverse workforce.
“When I came on board, there were concerns from department heads and also concerns from the mayor with really two things coming up,” he said. “One is our need to do a better job recruiting employees and some of the challenges we’ve had, particularly in the last year-and-a-half. The second thing was trying to work on improving the diversity of our workforce and make sure the people we have working here are comfortable working here.”
McGean said the process began with the exploration to two positions, but after discussions with former City Manager Doug Miller, Mayor Rick Meehan and Human Resources Director Katie Callan, it was determined the responsibilities spelled out in the job descriptions could likely be handled by the same person. McGean said the town might not always be looking in the right place for potential employees, not that it was intentional.
OMG some things never change! That Council has lost their minds. First they push away Doug Miller which other than that clown show of the budget manager, did an incredible job. Then they appoint the puppet Terry which is a mouthpiece for the Mayor, and NEVER finished a project on budget. Now we’re going to hire some liberal feminist (mark my words) to make life miserable on the FEW decent Department heads left.
Here we go with that word diversity again. What a waste. Just hire the best people for the job no matter what color they are
The Human Resource Director passes on most of her duties to staff below her so instead of creating a new position let her handle these two liberal titles and hold her accountable for something instead of the department heads being the “fall guys”.
Wonder how long this hire will last…not to mention any discovery of anything will be squashed.
Sad that we are now 22 years into the 21st century and the sh*t mindset still flows down hill.
Hire the best qualified.
The budget manager referred to earlier is on her way out. Ever since her lover in risk management retired, she’s been a tyrant! She was Doug’s downfall when 3 councilman wanted her diminished. The new diversity person will be the further downfall of the few good managers left. SMH