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Washington County commissioners discuss staff-assistant roles, confidential inbox and limits on after-hours events
Summary
County administrators briefed the board on a staff-assistant policy and commissioner office budgets, outlining shared-staff expectations, restrictions on political work, confidential inbox use, a one-event-per-quarter limit for after-hours attendance and travel/expense rules tied to a $4,290-per-commissioner budget.
Washington County commissioners spent a roundtable session reviewing expectations and operational rules for the staff-assistant team that supports the five commissioners, including new guidance on email access, event attendance and commissioner budgets.
Anna Ober, Assistant County Administrator, and Erin Doyle presented the staff-assistant framework and asked commissioners to confirm shared expectations. Ober said the positions are a shared county resource intended to support the entire board and emphasized four principles: staff assistants are county-provided resources; they are a shared (not individual-only) support; they are managed through county management processes; and they must not perform personal or political work for commissioners.
Ober said staff assistants should be able to step in for each other to maintain continuity when one is on leave. She also described calendaring…
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