Approving two Washington County Jail personnel from part-time to full-time “will help” at the facility, “but we are still not at full staff,” Chief Deputy Shawn Ellingson told …
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Approving two Washington County Jail personnel from part-time to full-time “will help” at the facility, “but we are still not at full staff,” Chief Deputy Shawn Ellingson told the Washington County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, June 22. But moving Zachary Cornwell and Victor Rico to full-time officially starting June 23, “will help.”
Both also were approved as civil process servers for the department for a three- and half-year terms from June 15, 2021 to December 31, 2024.
Other personnel changes were accepted the resignation of Lucinda Johnson, home health aide with Public Health, effective June 30 and hiring Mason Juhl as a full-time summer aide for the Washington County Conservation department, effective June 17 at $11 per hour. Juhl is a recent high school graduate.
In what will be a regular agenda item into August, the board discussed procedures to determine exactly how the approximate $4.4 million county allocation in federal COVID Relief Funds will be spent. The board already agreed to appoint a five-member core group to review allowable uses and make recommendations to the board.
As noted Tuesday, there will be the main core group to deal with the specific uses as well as several subgroups to review some eight to ten detailed categories for COVD relief. It is expected all will be in place in August when final guidelines are to be issued by the federal government. An annual report regarding the use and projects will be made to the federal government by the end of October. All funds are too be expended by the end of 2024. The board Tuesday indicated that once uses are determined, implementation likely will start in September.
The board also received its weekly COVID update. As of June 22, active COVID-19 cases total 14, with 10 in the last 14 days and four in the prior seven days, reported county Public Health Administrator Danielle Pettie-Majewski.
The county’s current positively rate is 2.3% with one reported hospitalization. The county deaths, since last March, stand at 51. There also have not been, to date, any outbreaks of COVID in county long-term care facilities.
Positively rate in Johnson County is 1.1% and in Jefferson County, 1.5%. To date, 43.8% of county residents are fully vaccinated.
In Iowa, there is a reported 2,913,508 residents, 44.5%, who are fully vaccinated.
