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Dunn County Transit restructures, Austin to oversee facilities and transit operations
Summary
Following the departure of facilities director Scott Nabafelt, Dunn County Transit announced a staffing reorganization that assigns Austin oversight of both facilities and transit, adds an operations lead in transit and a facilities lead, and creates a middle management layer.
Dunn County Transit announced on June 11 that facilities director Scott Nabafelt had left earlier in the month to take a facilities director role in Chippewa County and that the agency plans a management restructure to fill the gap.
A county staff member told the board that the vacancy creates an opportunity to consolidate oversight. “We have been negotiating with Austin to take over as our facilities and transit facilities, parks, and transit director,” the staff member said, adding the county will create a middle layer of management with an operations manager in transit and a lead operations role in facilities so Austin can oversee both departments.
The staff member said the change is intended to create efficiencies and growth opportunities and that the transition will begin around June 23. Austin’s background was described as business management with a construction emphasis from Stout and subsequent operational experience; staff said that background will inform facilities oversight. Austin acknowledged he still drives service at times and that the reorganization will reduce hands‑on driving assignments for leadership.
Why it matters: the shift consolidates responsibility for transit operations and facilities under one supervisor, changing reporting lines and creating new lead roles. The board did not take a formal vote; staff presented the reorganization as a personnel and operational change and said more details on hiring for the new lead roles will come as recruitment proceeds.
Next steps: staff said they will post and recruit for the newly created lead roles and will provide updates to the board on staffing and operations. No formal personnel action or employment contract changes were recorded in the June 11 discussion.
