Parks & Recreation Director Leaving Wallingford

WALLINGFORD, CT — Wallingford will be looking for a new parks and recreation director as John Gawlak is retiring next week to take a similar position in Cheshire, according to multiple reports.

The Meriden Record-Journal reports Gawlak, 54, will start his new job as parks director in Cheshire on May 13 and will earn $93,000. His salary in Wallingford was $111,792.

Gawlak worked for Wallingford Parks and Recreation for 31 years, including the last 16 as the department’s director, and recently became eligible to collect a pension from Wallingford, according to the New Haven Register.

The Register reports Gawlak has offered to serve as a volunteer on Wallingford’s Pool Committee as the town determines what it wants to do with the aging Community Pool complex.

Read more at the New Haven Register here and the Meriden Record-Journal here.