Greene County salary board OKs hirings, creates positions
WAYNESBURG – Greene County officials approved a few new hirings and opened up a couple job opportunities Thursday. Meeting as the salary board, the county commissioners created a county fleet manager position.
They are now looking for a certified mechanic to maintain 10 to 11 Community Action vehicles and 15 county vehicles. The accompanying salary is $22,880 a year.
Tracy Zivkovich, human resources director, said the work is outsourced. Commissioner Scott A. Blair said Community Action would pick up some of the cost. Commissioner Farley Toothman wondered if one person could do the job, but all three commissioners voted to create the position.
In the emergency medical/911 category, they named Amanda Zgela as a full-time telecommunications officer to fill an existing vacancy, with the pay according to the service employees’ contract. They also decided to create the temporary position of planner/trainer for the department, according to a homeland security grant. Zivkovich said the position would pay $8 an hour, and the term would expire at the end of 2003.
For the prison, the salary board appointed William Krieder and Jodi Walters as full-time corrections officers, at the entry rate of the service employees’ contract. They appointed Joe French as a deputy sheriff at $8.81 an hour, and they approved the hiring of George Lewis, George Smith, Robin Lantz, Chris Henderson and Daniel Maleta as casual corrections officers.
Under human services, they created two part-time customer-satisfaction-team positions, one each for 20 and 10 hours a week. They accepted the resignation of Brandy Fisher as a secretary and approved the upgrade of a part-time secretary position to full-time status, saying that job is now open to applicants. They also named Amber Raber a drug and alcohol specialist.
Further, the salary board reappointed DeAnna Strickland as a temporary employee to the commissioners’ unit for $13.34 an hour.
They named Jason Powell as a temporary working supervisor in the building and grounds department for $8.98 an hour during a worker’s compensation situation.
They increased the daily rate for the court tipstaff by 2.8 percent to $50.40, at the request of Judge Terry Grimes.
The commissioners also met Thursday as the county’s retirement board, asking about the status of investments with Mockenhaupt Associates. Chief Clerk Gene Lee said the fund was valued at about $6.4 million Dec. 31, 2001, and it dropped to $5.6 million Aug. 31.
He said the fund may go up, but Mockenhaupt recommended that the county put aside about $150,000 for the fund by the end of the year and consider $300,000 for 2003.
Meanwhile, at the commissioners’ regular business meeting, they approved a general warranty deed between the county and George and Gloria A. Keener for property in Franklin Township. The parcel is situated across the road from the rear entrance to the Greene County Fairgrounds, and the deed would concern the construction of a new animal shelter for the Humane Society of Greene County.
The commissioners also voted to list property in Richhill Township next to Ryerson Station State Park with Behm Auction Service. This is the former Laskosky property, which the county initially had planned to turn into an all-terrain vehicle trail.