David L. Recor
city manager · active 2011–2016
City Manager of Ocean City, ICMA-credentialled, succeeding Dennis Dare. He was asked in January 2013 to put the Small Business Administration's Hurricane Sandy disaster-assistance deadline on the town's website — one of the two items that are the whole of Ocean City's recorded relationship with that storm. He had gone by early 2016, and the mayor ran the administration under the charter until a successor arrived.
In the record (8)
2012
Dennis Dare, City Manager since 1990, is now a Council Member — and David L. Recor holds the post he held for twenty-two years
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; Council President Lloyd Martin; Zoning Administrator Blaine Smith; Planning Commission chaired by Pam Greer Buckley. Ninety-four documents. Dare had been City Engineer through the whole beach fight before taking the manager's chair; he now sits on the body that appointed him. Some documents in the 2012 folder belong to other years, so every quotation must carry an internal date.
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2012 · 2012-07-16
After the Beach Patrol began enforcing a 42-inch limit on boogie boards against the new 'beater' boards, the city manager suspended the rule, the captain canvassed five surf shops, and the council passed an emergency ordinance raising the limit to 54 inches
A town press release of 12 July 2012: "Ocean City City Manager David L. Recor initiated a temporary suspension of the prohibition regarding the use of certain body boards on Ocean City beaches. The use of 'boogie' boards, which are defined in the Town Code as a semi soft, buoyant, semi curved object, no more than 42 inches long, 24 inches wide and 4 inches thick, is permitted on Ocean City beaches in non designated surfing areas. Several new body board styles have been introduced to the market... in a variety of lengths ranging from 44 inches to more than 72 inches... The growing popularity of these new body board styles combined with several public complaints regarding their proliferation necessitated heightened awareness and increased enforcement from the Ocean City Beach Patrol." Captain Butch Arbin's memo of 13 July: "Butch met personally with the Owner/managers of five local surf shops. This included representatives from Malibu's, K-Coast, Endless Summer, Quiet Storm and Chauncey's... We have changed the terms for Boogie board to Soft Top Body Board and increased the length to 54 inches. (this will allow over 95% of boards sold to be used)", with boards over 42 inches to carry a leash and stay ten yards from swimmers, and "the digging of holes deeper than knee deep, tunneling and leaving holes unattended" added as prohibited acts. At the regular meeting of 16 July "City Manager David Recor advised that he met with Parks and Recreation Director Tom Shuster and Beach Patrol to address the public's reaction to prohibiting beater boards... Council Secretary Martin moved to ratify Ordinance 2012-23 as an emergency ordinance; seconded by Council Member Joe Hall. The vote was unanimous. The Mayor concurred with vote."
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2013
Ninety-one documents and a staff list that has become professional: an ICMA-credentialled manager, a CPA finance administrator, a city engineer and a tourism director
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; Council President Lloyd Martin; Council Secretary Mary Knight; Council Member Dennis Dare; Council Members Pillas, Michael James; City Manager David L. Recor, ICMA-CM; City Solicitor Guy Ayres; Zoning Administrator Blaine Smith; City Engineer Terence McGean; Finance Administrator Martha J. Bennett, CPA; Tourism Director Donna Abbott. In 1957 the town's whole professional staff was a clerk who told the councilmen privately that a bond issue was needed to get Ocean City out of the hole.
Terry McGeanRick MeehanDennis W. DareGuy R. Ayres III
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2013 · 2013-01-07
Ten weeks after the largest Atlantic storm in living memory, the town's whole recorded relationship with it is a federal loan deadline three days away and rubbish washing up on the beach
Both items came from citizens at the microphone. "Beverly McDonald of the Small Business Association advised the forum that disaster assistance is available until January 10, 2013. Interested parties should contact the SBA via website www.sba.gov or call 1-800-659-2955. Council Secretary Mary Knight asked City Manager Recor to post this information on the Town's website." And: "Herb Pawlukewicz said that debris from Hurricane Sandy is still floating ashore. Council President Lloyd Martin said he will ask City Engineer McGean to look into this matter." The beach programme has done its work so completely that Sandy reaches this record as a housekeeping item — the same pattern the City Manager described in January 1992.
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2014
Eighty-eight documents and about 4.48 million characters, with a police chief, an emergency services director and a tourism director all named in the record
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; Council President Lloyd Martin; Council Member Dennis Dare; Council Members Mary Knight, Michael James; City Manager David Recor; City Solicitor Guy Ayres; Police Chief Ross Buzzuro; Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald; Tourism Director Donna Abbott. The largest annual volume in the corpus, and still one source.
Rick MeehanRoss C. BuzzuroDennis W. DareGuy R. Ayres III
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2015
From 2015 the IQM2 packets include every attachment: 1,541 files retrieved for the year, of which 336 are actual session records carrying about 8.29 million characters
The year and every year after it must be triaged by filtering to documents whose opening pages are a session record. Mayor Richard W. Meehan; Council President Lloyd Martin; Council Secretary Mary Knight; Council Members Doug Cymek, Dennis Dare, Tony DeLuca, Wayne Hartman, Matt James; City Manager David L. Recor, ICMA-CM; City Solicitor Guy Ayres; City Clerk Diana Chavis; City Engineer Terence McGean; Public Works Director Hal Adkins; Finance Administrator Martha Bennett. The corpus's problem has inverted since 1934: the difficulty is no longer that nothing survives but that too much does.
Terry McGeanRick MeehanDennis W. DareGuy R. Ayres IIIHal AdkinsDiana Chavis
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2015 · 2015-07-20
City Manager David Recor's resignation was "mutually agreed and accepted" in closed session on 20 July 2015; from the next meeting the minutes style Rick Meehan "Mayor/Acting City Manager", a search firm was hired on 11 August and candidates were interviewed on 10 December
Regular meeting of 20 July 2015, Report of Closed Session: "Action taken in Closed Session: The Mayor and Council have mutually agreed and accepted City Manager David Recor's resignation." In public comments the same evening "Nelson Cockrell inquired about City Manager David Recor's vehicle accident." On 28 July the minutes record "Mayor and Acting City Manager Rick Meehan"; on 11 August, in a second closed session, "Motion to approve Bob Slavin of Slavin Management Consultants for city manager search firm. RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]", and the mayor asked "to transfer the former city manager vehicle to the Police Department". Slavin sat in the closed session of 12 November on personnel matters, and the closed session of 10 December 2015 lists among those present "Human Resource Director Wayne Evans and City Manager Candidates." Recor had presented the FY16 budget message on 7 April and was still in attendance at the 14 July work session.
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2016
Every memo of the winter is routed "THRU: Mayor Rick Meehan, Acting City Manager" — the charter clause the council studied in 1995 doing its work without comment
"The Mayor shall act as the City Manager of the Town during the pendency of any vacancy in the position of the City Manager, and during such time shall be the chief administrative and financial officer." David Recor has gone; the mayor is running the administration until a successor arrives, and the charter says he must. Twenty-one years after the council read that section into its papers alongside national research on what a mayor is, the sentence is simply exercised. It is also the answer, thirty-one years late, to the question Feehley raised four weeks after Harry Kelley's funeral: what the City Manager system had left the mayoralty to be.
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