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Commissioners support exploring high-school internships to help planning and outreach work
Summary
Officials suggested recruiting high-school students for internships to assist with digital mapping, data entry and social media as a low-cost way to support community engagement and expose students to civic work.
A commissioner raised a proposal from a local high school asking for opportunities for students to serve and gain experience with county planning work. The idea was framed as an internship model rather than mentorship: one participant suggested, "Send us 5 kids a week...and let somebody start developing" data and social media work to support planning staff.
Commissioners responded favorably and asked staff to explore options for a simple, supervised internship or internship pilot that would allow students to do data entry, social-media help and basic mapping tasks. They asked that staff return with a proposal showing legal, scheduling and supervisory considerations and potential one-day-per-week participation models.
