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County considering new positions at Solid Waste

The McLeod County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC), which is comprised of the five McLeod County commissioners, considered a short-term plan to restructure the solid waste department with two additional full-time employees. SWAC met Wednesday morning, July 27.
Pat Melvin, county administrator, said the restructuring of the solid waste department is actually part of a long-term plan to place solid waste, environmental services and the planning and zoning department all under the same umbrella.
“We’re going to be having some retirements coming from environmental services and zoning sometime in the future,” said Melvin.
The goal, Melvin said, would be to have a director over all three departments. There would be some sharing of office staff, such as an office manager, accounting specialist, secretary and office support aide between the three departments.
“We hope there will be some cross training so they can help each other out during busy times,” said Melvin.
The environmental and zoning departments would share a supervisor under the director, and also would have an environmental technician and an assistant zoning administrator.
As for solid waste, which is the more immediate need, there would continue to be a solid waste coordinator under the director. The current recycling manager would be assisted by a recycling floor lead, while there would be a new lead position in the household hazardous waste department, as well as a household hazardous waste technician.

For more, see the Aug. 3 print edition of The Chronicle.