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Mayor Rod Mann urges Utah County to consider centralized commission staff to preserve institutional knowledge
Summary
Mayor Rod Mann presented county-commission staffing research, arguing that centralizing commission support (executive‑secretary/central staff or a county administrator model) can retain institutional knowledge, improve continuity, and may be cost‑neutral or save money; commissioners treated the presentation as informational.
Mayor Rod Mann presented the commission with a comparative review of how Utah counties staff elected legislative bodies and urged consideration of alternatives to Utah County's "personal assistant" model.
Mann said he surveyed 29 counties and found three broad approaches: individual personal assistants for commissioners (the model used by Utah County and Salt Lake County), a centralized executive-secretary or clerical staff that serves the commission…
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