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Personnel committee approves full‑time airport secretarial position to replace assistant role
Summary
Alpena County's Personnel Committee voted Oct. 7 to recommend replacing the Assistant Airport Manager position with a full‑time (40 hours/week) secretarial role to allow courthouse handling of money and invoices; committee approved the recommendation unanimously and will forward it to the full board.
The Alpena County Personnel Committee on Oct. 7 voted unanimously to recommend replacing a previously budgeted Assistant Airport Manager position with a full‑time airport secretarial position.
Airport Manager Mick Higgins requested the change so someone other than the manager can regularly come to the courthouse to handle money, invoices and county paperwork. County Administrator Jesse Osmer told the committee the assistant slot is already included in the 2026 budget and would simply be reclassified to a secretarial line.
Osmer said the salary budgeted for the position in 2026 is $37,500, while the committee recommendation lists a $35,000 base for the full‑time (40 hours per week) secretarial position. The current secretarial work is performed under contract by Alpena Grounds Service, which Osmer said is not a county hire and therefore cannot process county transactions; the county-contracted grounds service would fill the resulting vacancy with a maintenance person, which the airport manager said would benefit the airfield.
Commissioner Todd Britton moved the recommendation and Chair Brenda Fournier supported it. The motion carried on a roll‑call vote: AYES — Commissioners Britton, Kozlowski and Fournier; NAYS — none. The committee recommended forwarding the position reclassification and associated budget adjustment to the full board for final approval.
The committee did not set an effective date in the minutes; Administrator Osmer indicated his office will prepare the necessary change to the budget line and related documentation for the full board.
