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Van Zandt DPS leader urges pay adjustment to retain administrative assistant as trooper staffing expands
Summary
The head of the Department of Public Safety in Van Zandt County asked commissioners to retain and reclassify an administrative assistant who performs multiple duties, saying that doing so would allow troopers to spend more time on patrol as the agency plans to add troopers later this year.
Matthew Skinner, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety office in Van Zandt County, told the commissioners court the department’s top budget request is compensation and retention for his administrative assistant, Monica McCoy.
Skinner said McCoy performs “nine jobs in one,” handling case paperwork, public information requests, crash- and arrest-related records, facility maintenance coordination and other duties that would otherwise pull troopers into the office. He said that keeping troopers on the road increases traffic enforcement, crash response and criminal investigations…
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