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Soil and Water volunteer asks council to reallocate staff time to help post‑storm workload
Summary
A volunteer for Oconee County's Soil and Water advisory board asked council members to consider reallocating an existing county position or creating a part‑time split to support Soil and Water workload, particularly after recent storm impacts.
Kim Alexander, a volunteer who said she wrote an advisory‑board letter to the council, asked on May 6 that the county consider reassigning an existing position or splitting a part‑time role to support the Soil and Water office and its work with farmers, watershed oversight and federal partners.
Alexander described increased workload following storms and retirements in the local USDA/NRCS office and said additional county help would facilitate access to federal farm services and recovery work. She asked the council to consider shifting a vacant or unfilled county position rather than adding new money to the budget. “If there's a position that is not filled and is not going to be filled, if you could look at somehow giving a part time position, splitting a position in another department,” she said.
County officials acknowledged the request and said they would review staffing and the budget to determine whether positions could be reallocated or services adjusted to support Soil and Water operations; no formal change was made at the meeting.
