Today is Rita Deister’s final day as a Saline County employee.
Deister has served as Saline County Administrator for 18 years. She also has served as the county’s personnel director and assistant administrator. She began working for Saline County in 1991 and has worked there for the last 27 years.
During her tenure, Deister has served under 21 county commissioners and 8 separate boards of county commissioners and has seen significant changes during her time in county government, especially in technology.
“When I first started, there was one fax machine in the building, and we shared it with the city. That’s unbelievable by today’s standard,” she said. “No cell phones of course, no text messages, no email. You would come back to your office and your whole door frame would be full of little sticky notes from people who left messages.”
(Read more: News – Salina Journal)