The County’s General Services Administration will be reorganized to cut costs and rebalance the staff-to-management ratio. County Administrative Officer Terri Daly said that, over the years, various functions and departments have been moved in and out of the GSA, and that the GSA began restructuring in 2005. Now that the county has completed all planned major building projects, she said it was time to take another step of consolidation.

The GSA will merge the Support Services Dept and the Facilities Dept into one, called Government Support Services. This department will be responsible for construction projects, printing, the motor pool, mail service, maintenance of all facilities and parks and custodial services. A new mid-level director will be hired to head the new Government Support Services Dept, with a salary of $7000 per month. Daly said she was trying to find positions elsewhere in the county rather than laying-off the displaced directors of Support Services and Facilities. Daly stressed that no other layoffs were being considered. County government is currently operating under a hiring freeze and many departments are short staffed.