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Citizens Academy wraps up; county IT and HR outline services and job openings
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Kent County celebrated seven Citizens Academy completers and heard department spotlights: IT described broadband anchor sites, CARES-funded household connections and $161,000 in cybersecurity grants; HR outlined recruitment, benefits, employee relations, and current job openings and encouraged residents to apply.
The Kent County Board of Commissioners recognized seven participants who completed the Citizens Academy and heard brief departmental spotlights from IT and Human Resources.
Jamie Williams, director of economic and tourism development, presented certificates to participants who completed the five-week Citizens Academy cohort.
Scott Buren, the county IT director, said the small IT team supports every department, maintains a high-speed backbone to more than 80 anchor sites, helped connect roughly 60 homes during the pandemic using CARES funding, supports three fiber-to-the-home providers through state grants, and has obtained SLCGP cybersecurity grant funding totaling about $161,000.
Jennifer White, HR business partner, described HR's core functions — recruitment and hiring, classification and compensation, benefits administration, employee and labor relations, training and compliance — and said HR is a strategic partner in delivering county services. Michael Sutton, HR director, was in the audience and later brought three conditional offer approvals forward during the meeting (part-time control-room operator, full-time correctional officer, and a motor-equipment operator), all of which passed by voice vote.
Commissioners praised the Citizens Academy program as a civic-engagement tool and encouraged residents to watch for fall cohort signups.
