I am just frustrated with state government and it’s lack of doing things right and above board. Everything here is behind your back and under the table. -from a DNR employee who survived the layoffs and asked to remain anonymous.
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From: GEBHARDT, PAT (DNR)
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:51 AM
To: DNR DL DIV-IT
Cc: CHAMBERLIN, DEBRA (DNR)
Subject: Personnel Announcement
Please join me in welcoming Betty Stephens and Sandra Bahr back to ITD and saying goodbye to Chuck Caruthers and Deb Naslund. Sandra will be moving into the spot vacated by Chuck on the GIS Helpdesk and Betty will replace Deb Naslund and resume her role as GIS Project Manager.
Forest Practice’s GIS group has been decimated as a result of budget reductions. 3 or the 4 staff are new, including the lead of the group. The GIS Migration is in a critical stage and still has a year or so to go before completion. It was felt by both Julie Sandberg, FP Division Manager, and myself that it was in the best interests of the agency to try and bring continuity at the leadership level of the FP GIS group and the GIS Migration Project. Given that people with the right skills were in the various positions in question, it was possible to reassign Sandra back to ITD in a GIS support role for which she is very well suited and that made it possible to return Deb to the FP GIS lead position.
That still left the GIS Migration Project manager position vacant. Chuck has the needed skills to fill the FP Hyrdo Data Steward roll which Betty was filling and this made it possible to move Betty back to ITD and reassign her to the Migration project.
Julie and I are asking Betty, Sandra, Chuck, and Deb to stay where they are for the time being until all the paper work gets processed, which should be shortly.
This has been a long and winding road but one that has finally come to an end and restores some much needed continuity to some very critical agency business. I don’t anticipate any more moves within ITD but I remain open to surprises and/or new information.
