Marshall County Health Administrator Ashley Garcia wants to hire two people in her office, but job descriptions need to be in place in order for the hiring process to move forward.
She presented a grant application request to the Marshall County Council on Monday morning to obtain funds to help offset the cost for the position of the emergency preparedness coordinator. Of the $31,895 requested, $23,775 will be used for a portion of the salary and the rest will be used for a portable freezer for a COVID-19 vaccine, once established.
Garcia explained, “We’re anticipating that the vaccine for COVID-19 is going to come frozen and if we have to do mobile vaccinations we’re going to need something like a portable freezer that’s lab-grade. We’re going to look into getting something like that and also the point of disbursement for these vaccines, further training and exercise planning for the preparedness coordinator and things like that.”
Human Resources Administrator Ann Anglin explained that job descriptions for a nurse/health educator and emergency preparedness coordinator/environmentalist have been submitted to Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele officials who are expected to come back with a recommendation on July 22. The salary ordinance would then be amended to reflect the updated information.
She noted that the job descriptions are reorganized from previous positions, but they still need to be reviewed by Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele.
Garcia said that she would like to fill these positions sooner than the council’s next meeting in August as one part-time employee would need to leave by then as she’s a school nurse.
Marshall County Commission President Kevin Overmyer urged the council to have a special meeting to get the job descriptions approved so people can be hired as it is a busy time at the Health Department.
The council members agreed that the process needed to be expedited and set a special meeting for Thursday, July 23 at 4:30 p.m. to consider the adoption of the job descriptions.
