Reno County has implemented a hiring freeze and county department heads were advised to begin looking at how to cut budgets – this year as well next – due to the anticipated impact on revenues from the novel coronavirus.
County Administrator Randy Partington advised the Reno County Commission during its regular Tuesday session that he’d already implemented the hiring freeze “other than public safety positions and any positions in the process where a job offer has been made.”
The community is still at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, Partington said, so it may be some time before its full impact will be known. But he’s reviewed some initial figures with internal county auditor Leslie Roederer.
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