![]() ![]() (Dylan Lees for ELi)Īt this point, Planning & Zoning (a division of the Department of Planning, Building and Development) has no employees beyond an administrative secretary. Menser has since left the City of East Lansing job. Peter Menser (left) served temporarily as Interim Director of Planning, Building and Development after the departure of previous Director Tom Fehrenbach. Fehrenbach took a job with the State of Michigan and Menser with Delta Township. In all, 10 employees quit that department in a year, including the department’s Director Tom Fehrenbach and his successor, Interim Director Peter Menser, who had been serving as East Lansing’s Planning and Zoning Administrator (a key position) before being named Fehrenbach’s temporary replacement. Another HR administrator has been hired and is expected to start work later this month, according to the city’s Communications Department lead, Carrie Sampson.Įast Lansing’s Department of Planning, Building and Development has also been hard hit by the wave of resignations. Her interim replacement, Ben Dawson, quit just a few months later.Ĭurrently, the HR department’s directory has just two members, an HR “administrator” and an HR “specialist.” The administrator, Emily Kenney, has been named interim director. Longtime HR Director Shelli Neumann, who worked for the city since 1997, left this past year. The City’s Human Resources (HR) Department – which plays a critical role in filling vacant positions – is one of the departments particularly hard hit. Some units have experienced significant losses. ![]() In many cases, those managers had many years of experience working in East Lansing’s municipal service. It also shows the city has lost a large number of management-level employees in a short space of time. According to the released material, 56 left the City’s employ while 42 were hired.īut drilling down into that turnover, looking at who has chosen to retire or resign since June 2022, shows some departments have been much harder hit than others. Records released by the City of East Lansing to ELi under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that, in the year starting June 1, 2022, the City lost a net of only about 14 regular employees. ![]()
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