Measures made in light of concern about November property tax referendum
New Sarasota City Manager Karie Friling has placed a hold on filling city staff positions “at this time,” she informed the City Commission in a June 30 email.
She had been working with Deputy City Manager Jennifer Jorgensen and Dominique Anderson, the acting director of the city’s Human Resources Department, Friling wrote, “to develop a ‘position to fill request and justification process’ that [would] be rolling out [that] week. The form will be required to be submitted by the hiring manager to the department director, along with expected costs, funding source, and written justification on why the position is recommended to be filled and not held open. Positions that are in the middle of recruitment — i.e. — interviewing, offers [pending] — will continue to be filled.”…