Meet the candidates

The Parks and Recreation Department is holding two town hall meetings to give the community a chance to meet the finalists for an assistant director position with the parks department. The hiring manager will discuss the hiring process and introduce the candidates and attendees will have the opportunity to provide feedback. According to PARD’s news release, the assistant director position is “responsible for service operations, budgets, personnel, and management for community recreation centers, senior centers, adaptive recreation, nature based programming, forestry, outreach programming, athletics, cultural arts, and museums.” Both town hall meetings will take place Thursday, Jan. 16, at noon at Zilker Botanical Garden Auditorium, 2220 Barton Springs Road (parking fee waived for attendees); and 6:30 p.m. at Conley Guerrero Senior Center, 808 Nile St.