The director of the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation has overhauled the agency’s upper management and fired two administrators since being confirmed this month, as he moves to motivate reform in the 800-employee operation.

After his appointment as acting director six monthsago, Clark Ray immediately noticed that “morale was at a very low level” in the $60 million agency, he said Thursday. After taking a “very hard look at a lot of the individuals inside my staff, who was performing and who wasn’t performing,” he made his moves last week – promoting seven people into administrative roles, creating new leadership slots to target specific sports programs, and firing an associate maintenance director as well as one of his directors of partnerships and grants.