Stoddard County commissioners continued interviews with five more candidates for a Senate Bill 40 board spot and two others up for reappointment June 30.
Verrell Marchbanks, Daniel Robinson, Shirley Fann, Ray McLane and Danny Griffin came before the commission Monday to answer questions ranging from their best attributes to serve on the board to approaches to correct the issues between the SB40 and Sheltered Workshop boards.
Marchbanks spent the majority of her career in the banking and aluminum industry and worked for a lady who had a disabled daughter she helped care for at times.
Robinson has two children with special needs and teaches training classes on effective communication with children and adults with disabilities.
Fann has a background in social services and worked for DAEOC and the Division of Family Services.
McLane was in the Naval Reserve, a former city of Advance employee and currently works for SEMO Electric and serves on the Senior Citizen Housing Board in Advance.
Griffin is currently on the Sheltered Workshop board, served in the United States Army and is a retired child support enforcement technician.
The commission is expected to make their appointments prior to the July 19 SB40 board meeting.
In other action:
Emergency
Management update
Emergency Management Director Kent Polsgrove gave the commission his monthly report.
Polsgrove reported he met with the Dexter Kiwanis last week about the tornados in Malden and Perryville and explained how neither community qualified for disaster aid from the state or FEMA.
He told the group it is not only important to have the support of civic groups through donations, but also through man power in the event of a disaster.
"It's getting harder and harder to get any state or federal assistance," he said.
Polsgrove also reported funnel clouds were spotted on the east side of the county during the storm Thursday, June 21, but no damage was found.
Sheriff's Department
Sheriff Carl Hefner reported the sheriff's department was down three deputies, possibly four, after loosing another employee to the Dexter Police Department.
Hefner said he received an application and would like to consider the candidate, but he lived outside the county.
The commission voted to relax the rule of hiring a sheriff's department deputy from across county lines.
The prospective deputy would be allowed to take home a county car, but not allowed to drive it unless it was work related. This amendment is set on a 60 day trial basis.
Overtime pay
Commissioners agreed a few weeks ago overtime hours for the sheriff's department would be paid to the employees who kept track of the time.
Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis said that money was available in the sheriff's department's budget after the loss of several employees.
A request from the prosecuting attorney's office was made for an employee with overtime as well.
Mathis said the prosecuting attorney's office did not have that money built into its budget.
Commissioners agreed when they have overtime hours that are built in for the remainder of the year that are being expended, they would amend the budget at the end of the year in order to compensate for the pay. This amendment would be necessary since done in the middle of the year.
"This will not put any office holder's budget at a disadvantage in regards to the monies that they have already there," Mathis said.