At the Sept. 15 work session, Limestone County commissioners approved a slate of hires, promotions and staffing-plan updates affecting the sheriff’s office, coroner’s office, maintenance, tag-and-title, animal control and school resource officers.

Items presented included hiring Alex Brooks, Ella Posey and Melissa Jackson as corrections officers effective Oct. 6 (pending drug screening); hiring Dakota Lovell, Carol Reeves, Cameron Green and Frank Donnelly as deputy sheriffs effective Oct. 20 (pending drug screening); promotions for Stephen Cooper Posey and Dylan Legg to investigative assignments (effective dates recorded in the agenda); promotion of Cheyenne Abernathy to patrol sergeant effective Oct. 6; and a transfer of Justin Smith from patrol sergeant to deputy sheriff effective Oct. 6. The transcript lists these names and effective dates as presented by staff.

The commission also approved allowing Coroner Mike West to add and hire a deputy/assistant, naming Tyler Gibson for that position. Staffing-plan amendments approved included adding two campground trainee/manager slots at Cal Fort, increasing the license-commission tag-and-title clerk count from six to eight to reflect current staffing and allow promotion slots, and amending animal-control staffing to reflect one animal-control officer.

On school resource officers, the staffing plan was amended to reflect 17 school resource officers; the chairman said the county handles payment through the commission’s payroll where required by law for contracted schools but noted contracts vary by school. “We have to pay them through here because of the statute and the law,” the chairman said while explaining why some school contracts run through the county.

Most hires and promotions were presented as pending standard preemployment checks, such as drug screenings. The transcript indicates commissioners advanced the package with no objection recorded in the work session. Several items referenced prior staffing approvals by the commission; staff said some positions had been approved previously but remained unfilled until now.

Next steps: the listed hires, promotions and staffing-plan amendments will be processed by personnel and the relevant county departments; the transcript does not show individual roll-call votes or salary details for each position.