For the past few months, the DeWitt County Board's Land Use Committee has been leading the discussion on the future of the Zoning office.

DeWitt County Administrator DeeDee Rentmeister is planning to step away from those responsibilities. Board Chair Dan Matthews indicates the conversation is about how to proceed with who will lead that office.

According to Matthews, the Board seems split on whether to allow DeeDee to step aside without someone in the office or whether to continue to ask her to execute the duties of the office until they find someone.

While a little bit of turnover in the Emergency Management Agency office has taken place in the last few years, the County is on a trajectory to give young people a chance to cut their teeth in a small market before moving onto a bigger market. Matthews believes that may be a direction for DeWitt County in its zoning office.

For DeWitt County, it is hard to compare its zoning officers' duties and job description with others because Matthews notes it seems many counties do it differently.

Matthews points out, there has been some interest in the job in the short time it has been advertised as the Land Use Committee will take up a few interviews next month.