299 city staffers told to resign Friday as part of Lenny Curry's mayoral transit

[mtraininjax]

While not pleasant for those being asked to offer letters of resignation, I would guess the majority will be held in case they are needed to make it easier to bring in whom the new division chiefs want. I would hope that most of the mayoral appointees would keep the majority of the "appointed employees" around as they are the ones doing the everyday lifting ... at least until they get a feel for whom does what and how well they do it.

What is the big deal here? Why so much ignorance? All appointed positions serve at the "pleasure of the mayor" are are asked "required" to submit their resignations every 4 years and then interview for their job. Leave your feelings about pleasantness at the door please. If you do your job and can live through 4 years of serving people, and are liked at 117 West Duval Street, 4th floor, odds are you will be back in your job again. The mayor is the ultimate head of HR and its his/her show. This is a fair and equitable way of handling employment at KEY positions.

[Tacachale]

Yeah, this may look rough for staff experiencing it for the first time, but it's standard process in every changeover. Anyone appointed is subject to review by the mayor and has to interview for their job. It's mostly hard up for the upper management (as mayors often want their own people) and folks who aren't performing. For lower level employees who do their job well, they'll receive fair consideration, and experience doing literally that job is strong qualification. Of course, anything could happen, but then they also have their civil service position to fall back on. That's still better than most can say.

[Grey88Supra]

Yeah, this may look rough for staff experiencing it for the first time, but it's standard process in every changeover. Anyone appointed is subject to review by the mayor and has to interview for their job. It's mostly hard up for the upper management (as mayors often want their own people) and folks who aren't performing. For lower level employees who do their job well, they'll receive fair consideration, and experience doing literally that job is strong qualification. Of course, anything could happen, but then they also have their civil service position to fall back on. That's still better than most can say.

Actually, this appears to be the first time in Jacksonville history that the Appointed Employees have been asked to resign.  It's usually only the Appointed Officials.

[mtraininjax]

Actually, this appears to be the first time in Jacksonville history that the Appointed Employees have been asked to resign.  It's usually only the Appointed Officials.

Not quite, the appointees, employees or otherwise, were asked to submit resignations under Peyton as well. I can't say it was 299, but it still happened.

[Steve]

Actually, this appears to be the first time in Jacksonville history that the Appointed Employees have been asked to resign.  It's usually only the Appointed Officials.

Not quite, the appointees, employees or otherwise, were asked to submit resignations under Peyton as well. I can't say it was 299, but it still happened.

Yes, mtrain is correct

[Grey88Supra]

Actually, this appears to be the first time in Jacksonville history that the Appointed Employees have been asked to resign.  It's usually only the Appointed Officials.

Not quite, the appointees, employees or otherwise, were asked to submit resignations under Peyton as well. I can't say it was 299, but it still happened.

Yes, mtrain is correct

Hmm.. looks like it was 66 people: http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052503/met_12629811.shtml#.VW9e2ZpVhBc

Evidently, it has normally been the Appointed Officials and the Appointed Employees directly reporting to the Mayor's office.  Not the Appointed Employees in the other Departments (Parks and Rec / ITD / Public Works / etc)

Same for Brown, it appears: http://www.coj.net/mayor/docs/transition/minutes/personnel---june-15.aspx

[JaxUnicorn]

Yeah, this may look rough for staff experiencing it for the first time, but it's standard process in every changeover. Anyone appointed is subject to review by the mayor and has to interview for their job. It's mostly hard up for the upper management (as mayors often want their own people) and folks who aren't performing. For lower level employees who do their job well, they'll receive fair consideration, and experience doing literally that job is strong qualification. Of course, anything could happen, but then they also have their civil service position to fall back on. That's still better than most can say.

I wonder if the Mayor himself will interview all 299?  That's a LOT of interviewing!!  Does anyone know how many of the past appointed officials/employees were actually let go as a result of a Mayoral turnover? 

[jaxlore]

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/403455/timothy-gibbons/2011-06-15/mayor-elect-alvin-brown-begins-personnel-process

Looks like Mayor Alvin Brown asked for about 60 resignations.

Mayor Peyton was "several dozen" according the jax daily record.