Luzerne County has new information technology director

Ray Kase has been hired as Luzerne County government’s new information know-how director.

The position had been vacant considering that Mauro DiMauro resigned Dec. 16. County 911 GIS Supervisor David Skoronski had been filling in as non permanent director considering that March.

Kase explained he owned an IT consulting small business mostly performing with school districts in recent years and beforehand labored for 20 years in IT administration positions for school districts throughout the point out.

Initially immersed in an evaluation of county staff and engineering assist requires, Kase mentioned he is now intensely targeted on two critical tasks connected to community connectivity in buildings and servers that hold county data and applications.

A council bulk had voted in January to earmark up to $2.463 million in federal American Rescue System funding to go over a assortment of hardware, application and products and services, like a virtualization infrastructure improve that IT representatives experienced characterised as urgent.

Kase recommended council for allocating the money and said the task has been nicely made and contracted. The prepare was developed by Skoronski and present staffers, officers stated.

Council experienced agreed to fund three supplemental IT office positions this 12 months, which signifies the department is now authorised for 12 positions. Kase said only two positions remain open. Candidates will soon be interviewed for 1, and the county is at the moment looking for resumes for a network administrator opening, he stated.

“I am pleased to be listed here. We have a good workforce, and we’re operating on undertaking matters a minimal little bit in a different way here,” Kase mentioned.

He will acquire $90,000 annually.

Council seat

Tuesday is the software deadline for Republicans fascinated in filling Robert Schnee’s vacant county council seat by 2023.

Prospective appointees will have to be in excess of 18, have lived in the county for at the very least just one yr and have held a Republican voter registration relationship back to November 2019, when Schnee was elected.

The individual appointed can’t keep any other elective public workplace or a seat on any county board, authority or fee. Also prohibited is work with or payment from any contractor of the county or its boards, authorities and commissions.

Far more details is available on the council website page at luzernecounty.org.

Council tentatively programs to publicly interview applicants at 5 p.m. on Could 31, with the expectation of voting on the appointment June 14.

Prison get the job done

The county has entered into a $498,500 agreement with Johnson Controls Fire Protection L.P. to replace the fire security/notification program at the county jail on H2o Street in Wilkes-Barre, according to an on line posting.

The agreement includes all supplies, set up, programming, commissioning and validation of the process, it claimed.

Council experienced allotted federal American Rescue Plan funding to pay back for the task.

Key election

The county Election Board will begin its adjudication of the Could 17 principal election at 9 a.m. Monday in the county’s Penn Place Setting up at 20 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in Wilkes-Barre.

Flagged mail ballots will be reviewed to start with, like people with outer envelopes lacking signatures. Future, the board will tackle provisional ballots solid at the polls to make certain they have suitable signatures and that no mail ballots had been acknowledged from these voters.

The adjudication approach will consider time mainly because the volunteer citizen board will have to then overview write-in votes.

Unofficial on the internet benefits will be up-to-date when the adjudication is completed, the board mentioned.

All results are unofficial until eventually they are accredited by the board.