Orange County seeks new director for Dana Point Harbor

DANA POINT — Changes are afoot yet again at Dana Point Harbor, where a new manager could be installed within the first few weeks of 2017. OC Parks, the county department charged with overseeing operations at Dana Point Harbor, announced it is searching for a harbor manager. The job posting was found on Orange County’s human resources webpage. Applications are being accepted through Jan. 4, 2017. Dana Point Harbor has been without a dedicated harbor manager since the venue’s independent Harbor Department was collapsed into O.C. Parks in May. The management change coincided with the resignation of then-Harbor Director Brad Gross. The new harbor manager position, however, would be a post dedicated exclusively to Dana Point Harbor operations – although it does not appear he or she would oversee a stand-alone department as Gross did for so many years. “The harbor manager is a senior level management position within the OC Parks South Coastal Operations Group. The harbor manager reports to a parks division manager, and works collaboratively with the coastal operations manager, park rangers and maintenance staff responsible for operation and maintenance of the county’s beaches and coastal facilities within the cities of Laguna Beach and Dana Point,” the official job post stated. “The...