The Mathews County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting in the historic courthouse on Friday, Jan. 31, immediately going into a closed session that lasted 4½ hours.
Upon returning to open meeting, supervisor Tom Bowen moved that the board accept the retirement of the Information Technology director and eliminate the IT department altogether.
Bowen explained that if Mathews were a larger county, it could train additional personnel to take over when the leading IT employee leaves.
“But we can’t afford that now,” he said.
When IT personnel have left in the past, he said, the transition has been difficult. Judi Green, the county’s senior executive and deputy clerk to the board, does a lot of the technical work, Bowen said, and if it’s too much for her, it could be addressed by a third-party vendor. He said he would like for staff to put together the information to find a third-party IT vendor.
County Administrator Ramona Wilson said that she has no time to prepare such a report righ...