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
He is the 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.
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~ 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.
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Patrick Rigney
He is 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.
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Melanie Schuyler & Lori Stewart
They 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.
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Julius Luna
He is 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.
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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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