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County committee authorizes two new IT positions after staffing analysis
Summary
The Mecklenburg County personnel committee voted unanimously to add two IT positions to address cybersecurity and routine support gaps identified in a staffing analysis.
The Mecklenburg County personnel committee voted unanimously on Aug. 11 to authorize two additional positions for the county Information Technology department, funding the hires from a dedicated IT reserve. The committee based its recommendation on a July staffing analysis and the county's recent experience responding to cybersecurity threats.
Committee chair Brenda Blackwell and members Claudia Lundy, Sterling Wilkinson and Tom Tanner attended the personnel committee meeting where Alex Gottschalk and Alex Wells reviewed the county's IT capacity.…
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