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Dawson County IT asks for two new network roles, admin assistant citing surge in help requests and cybersecurity workload
Summary
County IT director Herman told commissioners the department is seeing a sharp rise in help requests and cybersecurity anomalies and asked for two new network administrator positions, an administrative assistant and a pay-grade reclassification to sustain operations and redundancy.
Herman, Dawson County IT director, asked the Board of Commissioners to approve two new network staff positions, an administrative assistant and one reclassification during a budget work session. He told the board the department averaged 360 work requests per month in 2025 compared with 246 per month in 2024 and faces growing cybersecurity demands tied to new facilities and increased county productivity.
The request would add a tiered networking structure: promote the existing network administrator to “Network Administrator 2,” promote an IT technician to “Network Administrator 1” and reclassify the IT technician’s base grade from 13 to 16; add a…
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