Board recognizes county employees with ‘Light Bulb’ innovation awards
Summary
Eight county employees won $1,000 each for efficiency and service-improvement ideas, from AI-assisted customer intake to youth mental-health kits. Supervisors praised the program and approved awards funded by Measure K.
The Board of Supervisors on March 24 recognized eight county employees as winners of the inaugural Light Bulb program, each receiving $1,000 for ideas to improve county services.
Conrad Fernandez of Human Resources said the program drew 64 entries and highlighted winners including proposals for AI-assisted bilingual draft responses and smart intake routing, a disaster-service youth childcare corps, an ‘adopt-a-spot’ maintenance initiative, an optimized field-visit router, procurement of prefilled Shingrix syringes, employee milestone events, and mental-health kits for youth. "We had 64 entries and after much deliberation, the review panel selected these following 8 winners," Fernandez said.
Supervisors praised the initiative as a way to surface operational innovations and encouraged county staff to consider broader implementation of winning ideas. The board approved the award payments and asked staff to continue exploring how to scale successful proposals through the county executive’s office and departmental leaders.
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