The Development Corporation of Snyder’s board of directors approved a $2,500 budget for advertising the executive director’s position at their meeting this morning.
During the meeting, DCOS Executive Director Brooke Proctor — who is resigning in March to move to Lubbock — said she has already advertised the position on several free job boards.
“It’s listed with these different online sources, but where do y’all want to take it?” Proctor asked the board during the meeting.
Proctor also said the position had been advertised with the Texas Municipal League, Texas Economic Development Council, HiredTexas, and Texas Midwest Communities Network.
The board also decided to advertise with local entities including the Snyder Daily News, and to give Proctor a discretionary fund of $2,500 to pay for advertising the job.
Proctor also gave a report on a plan for transition to a new director.
“I’ve been working on the succession plan, just taking everything that I know, think, feel. I made notes about our brainstorming session, where we went with that. I listed it out so the next person can come in and see what y’all were thinking about. There’s a method to my madness right now, just going through making notes, and the next person can have this on file, or they can read it, they can tear it up, they can do what they want. So it will help you guys moving forward. My goal right now is to keep all that noted.”
Proctor said she didn’t have a similar resource when she took on the director’s job, and she hopes the notes will help the next director.
In other business, the directors heard a report from Cogdell Memorial Hospital CEO Ella Raye Helms, in which she discussed the state of the hospital.
“The new normal in healthcare, hospitals in Texas are funded by supplemental payments that we receive from state and federal sources,” Helms said. “For us, that’s around $3 million a year. That’s subject to change at any time. The Medicaid program is underpaying rural Texas hospitals by $170 million a year. They’ve been making some headway on that; It was about half of that last year.”
Helms said Cogdell has a great record of not introducing its patients to new infections while in the hospital.
In other business, the directors opted for a two-pronged approach to dealing with hills of dirt currently occupying the Rail Park.
The DCOS will post two requests for bids, the first to sell the dirt if a buyer can be found, and a second for someone to spread the dirt over the land at the Rail Park.
In addition, Proctor noted that the Western Texas College Rodeo had expressed interest in using the dirt to cover the floor of the Coliseum for the rodeo. The directors voted to donate five truckloads of dirt to the rodeo, provided WTC handles moving the dirt to the Coliseum.
Directors also voted to not renew a billboard on U.S. Hwy. 84 advertising the DCOS. The directors approved meeting minutes from Jan. 11 and 24, and approved financials from December and January.
The directors also met in two closed sessions during the meeting, but took no action resulting from the closed sessions.
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