Please read our Privacy Policy . Interim parks director named By Ed Galucki Staff writer Only about six weeks after the city s first full-time parks and recreation director was named, the third person to hold the position was approved by the city council. That approval, and one to buy a new chipper, came in a Tuesday special meeting of the Lonoke City Council. Mayor Lenville Evans and aldermen Richard Bransford, Bob Butler, William Hall, Raymond Hatton and Wendell Walker attended the meeting. Duane Peckat, currently an officer at the Lonoke Police Department, will be parks and recreation director, but on an interim basis, Evans said.
Salary is yet to be negotiated.
Efforts to fill the position permanently are back to the beginning, Evans said. Peckat will remain a certified officer, but he will not hold a full-time position with the police department while serving as parks director, Evans said. It is possible that Peckat might help with limited police duties, but his primary job will be parks and recreation director, he continued. We hired the young man, and three days later he told me he was resigning. Don Martin was named director after Steve Lunsford resigned to take a position with the Texas Parks Service.