Seven employees of Barry County were recognized with the first Barry County Employee Service Awards Tuesday. Two more employees were named but were unable to be at the award presentation held during the Barry County Commission meeting.
ntroduced by their department heads, all of employees were credited for being outstanding employees, with many attributes that made them valuable to the county; professional, empathic, mentors to new employees, caring, helpful to co-workers, hardworking, resourceful and committed to public service.
The first employees to earn the awards are:
*Susanne Huebner, planning assistant in the Planning Department,
*Bill Romph, Barry County Sheriff’s deputy,
*Amber Jansens, corrections deputy at the Barry County Jail,
*Karolyn Brower, administrative assistant with the drug court,
*Cece Weatherly, COA office manager,
*Judy Hoolsema, legal secretary in the court system,
*Laurie Krol, senior probation officer.
Barry County Sheriff’s Lt. Jay Olejneczak and Deputy Steve Lehman were unavailable for the ceremony.
In other business Tuesday, the commission appointed Robert Carr, Michael Pratt, Ken Vierzen, Steven Koerber, Randall Jonker and John Bueche to the Barry County Remonumentation Peer Review Board and also approved the Monumentation Surveyor agreements between Barry County and Reynolds Land Surveying & Mapping, P.C. Arrow Land Survey, Pathfinder Engineering, Inc. Crane Land Survey, Carr & Associates, LLC, Exxel Engineering and Jonker Land Surveys PC for 2018. The agreement is the fourth year of a five-year contract with the same language as the previous contracts, according to Rose Anger, mapping technician in the Information Services Department.
Photo: The Barry County Employee Service Award winners and the number of years employed by the county are (from left) Bill Romph, 10 years; Laurie Krol, 25 years; Amber Jansens, 10 years; Judy Hoolsma, 15 years; Cece Weatherly, 15 years; Karolyn Brower, 15 years and Susanne Huebner, 5 years.
