The city continues to have a difficult time recruiting part time lifeguards.  The lack of lifeguards causes issues with maintaining hours in the aquatic center at the community center, and is going to cause issues with hours at Sandventure this summer.  Between now and the beginning of summer the city needs to add approximately 60 part time lifeguards. 

Staff has given a lot of consideration to options and has exhausted "traditional" recruitment channels.  The city has had a long term open posting, and marketed the positions without success in bringing in a significant number of new staff. We propose this option to test if it has any impact on our ability to recruit quality candidates. 

If this action passes, all current full and part time employees of the city will be eligible to earn a $100 stipend for referring a new employee who serves as a lifeguard for the city.  In order to earn the stipend the new lifeguard must serve successfully for at least 100 hours. The maximum amount any one employee will be eligible to earn is $500, and the maximum for the entire program will be set at $4000. The term of the program will be from passage until July 3, 2018.