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Clark County HR director outlines staffing, funding and ongoing compensation and benefits reviews
Summary
HR Director Laura Cobalt gave Clark County council a 20-minute overview of the Human Resources Department’s structure, staffing, funding sources and ongoing projects including a benefits study and a job-description RFP funded by one-time council approval.
Laura Cobalt, Clark County HR director, told the county council on the department’s role, staffing and finances and outlined two ongoing projects: a comprehensive benefits review and a contractor-led update of job descriptions.
Cobalt said the HR department has a 16-person core team that works with about 22 county departments and supports a separate two-person HR team in the sheriff’s office. She said the county employs about 1,800 total staff and that HR oversaw more than 350 recruitments in 2024 and had conducted roughly 50 workplace investigations in 2024.
The presentation described HR’s main service areas as employee relations, labor relations, employee engagement and training, benefits and leave administration, staffing and recruitment, compensation and…
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