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County staff discuss creating emergency management position, easing education requirements
Summary
At a Washtenaw County meeting, staff discussed creating a dedicated emergency management position, saying the role is often deprioritized and proposing lower formal education requirements to widen the applicant pool. No formal vote or hiring action appears in the transcript.
Washtenaw County staff discussed creating a dedicated emergency management position and loosening education requirements to broaden the applicant pool, according to the meeting transcript.
Speaker 1, a staff member, said the county has often put emergency management work “on the back burner” and described the opening as “a full task job,” adding that the county should change the job description to reduce formal education requirements so more candidates will apply. “The other one I want to put together [is an] emergency management position in…
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