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 The
Garden
… is managed by city staff. There is a Garden Manager assisted
by three full time and three part-time staff who work in conjunction
with the Mayor’s Citizens Advisory Committee. This committee
was created to ensure citizen input into the use of a public
garden
and it forms the policy for this usage. The City staff has
the task of implementing and monitoring these established policies
and procedures after they have been approved by the Board of
Public Works and the City Council. Policy decisions are made
by Board after receiving input from the Advisory Committee
and
Bureau of Sanitation. The day to day routine management decisions
are made by the garden office.
Gene
Greene
…Garden Manager and Landscape Architect, functions as a
program coordinator for the garden and liaison to the Advisory
Committee. Gene also oversees the docent/volunteer program,
site security services as well as filming/movie industry activities
at the site. Manager of landscape services section for Bureau
of Sanitation, Gene has been with the Garden since "before
dirt'' and assisted Dr. Kawana throughout the planning and
construction
of the Japanese Garden.
Betty
Ethridge
…Garden Coordinator, has a Bachelors degree in Business
Administration, coordinates with individuals having special
events (weddings, etc.) in the Japanese Garden as well as with
the docents and Advisory on projects such as new brochures,
the Garden calendar, guidebooks, etc. Betty also takes care
of routine clerical and administration matters.
Patrick
Rigney
…the Assistant Garden Manager, Landscape Architect, directs,
and supervises maintenance and construction for Garden related
projects. He is responsible for the design of bureau wide projects
for the landscape services section and implements and develops
expansion of the existing Garden program. Patrick was voted
employee of the year for the entire Bureau and is our master
float builder for Canoga Memorial Day Parade.
Melanie
Schuyler and Lori Stewart
…are our Tour Coordinators. They will be the ones to greet
you and help you to schedule a tour or give the times for
open strolling. They arrange docents for tours without a scheduled
guide and deal with initial inquiries from customers wishing
to schedule special events. Both have extensive backgrounds
in public relations, and both assist with general administration
tasks when not otherwise engaged.
Julius Luna
…our Office Engineering Technician and the newest member of staff his
duties include; following up on invoices and billing, database entry, developing
the scan/inventory system for the gift shop, tv/video enclosure for plant video,
research into
comparative facilties in order to evaluate our own, as well as a great deal
of work on our graphic projects such as the Garden Calendar and brochures using
our newly expanded graphics capabilities.
Staff
The garden is staffed by a minimum of four, full-time (40 hours/week)
gardeners, plus one supervisor. Additional staff is called
in
seasonally or as necessary. They maintain the entire site
including the two acre parking lot, the six and one half acre
garden, and the four acre levy.
There are also two part-time specialized tree pruners who
spend an average of 80 hours each month to maintain the one
hundred and twenty-three black
pine trees.
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