By Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder
The town’s Development Services Department, formed more than a year ago, is being split up.
“The desired plan is to go back to having a Department of Public Works and having a Community Development Department,” Florence Human Resources Director Scott Barber told the Town Council on Sept. 17. “… We’re going back, if you will, to (job) titles we had previously to make this happen.”
Planning Manager Larry Harmer will be the new Community Development director.
Barber wrote in a report to the council that the workload for the Development Services director has become too great, especially with ongoing utility issues. A new vacancy in wastewater is being addressed by the consolidation of water and wastewater back into a single utilities division with one superintendent.
