Citizen Portal

Get email alerts on the Personnel Extension topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

UNL Extension asks Dawes County to restore Extension office manager to full time

Dawes County Board of Commissioners · September 23, 2025

Summary

Melissa Mracek of UNL Extension told commissioners the Extension office should restore its office manager to a full-time position because part-time help will be difficult to find; Commissioner Stewart proposed starting part time with a six-month orientation and revisiting staff levels.

Melissa Mracek of UNL Extension asked the Dawes County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 23 to restore the Extension office manager position to full time, telling the board that recruiting and retaining part-time help would be difficult. Mracek also presented a breakdown of duties assigned to the office manager.

Commissioner Stewart responded during the budget hearing and suggested starting the office manager at part time with a six-month orientation period; he said the board could revisit staffing and make additional changes later if circumstances warrant. The exchange was part of the county’s 2025–26 budget hearing; no formal motion regarding the position change was recorded in the minutes.

Tom Menke, a meeting participant, asked where the RSVP budget appears in the county budget. The board closed the budget hearing at 9:19 a.m. and proceeded to adopt the appropriation resolution. The transcript notes that full texts of resolutions and budget documents are available from the Dawes County Clerk’s Office on request.

AI generated

The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.

AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.

Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.

Source