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Doniphan Co dept. head announces retirement plans

By Greg Bebermeyer

10/09/2024

Doniphan Co Courthouse

(KNZA)--Doniphan County Health Department/Home Health Administrator Sheryl Pierce has announced plans to retire next year.

Pierce announced a tentative retirement date of May 1st, 2025, at Monday's Doniphan County Commission meeting.

According to the unofficial meeting minutes, she will begin the recruitment process for a new Health Department/Home Health Administrator, with hopes of having someone hired prior to January 1st in order to train the individual and transition out by May 1st.

In other business, Northeast Kansas Environmental Services Health Specialist Martha Smith and Miller Trash Service Representatives met with the Commission to discuss operations of the Doniphan County Transfer Station at the end of Waste Management- contractual agreement on October 31st.

Smith presented the Commission with costs per ton from Z Force Transportation of Chicago Heights, IL and Hamm Quarries, of Perry to haul waste from the transfer station to landfills in Lawrence and Johnson County, Kansas. No action was taken.

County Clerk Peggy Franken, Smith and Miller Trash Service representatives will compile operating cost figures for the Commission's consideration on continuing to own the landfill and entering into a contractual operating agreement with Miller Trash Service.

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