Mayor Bob Buckhorn announced Tuesday afternoon that he has selected Greg Bayor as the City of Tampa Director of Parks and Recreation, replacing Karen Palus, who stepped down unceremoniously last December after seven years on the job.
Bayor has been serving in a similar position in Baltimore for the past two years. Before that, for more than a decade he served as the Director of Recreation in Montgomery County, Maryland, overseeing all recreation facilities and programming. He also served as Parks and Rec director for the City of Elgin, Illinois.
On the surface, the move should be encouraging for those City Hall observers who have called on Buckhorn to go far and wide to find the best talent to serve in his administration.
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.
