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staff as a result of these changes. First, I am proud to say that Jonathan Greer, onetime AAC Staff Counsel, will be rejoining our group after seven years working as Saline County’s Attorney. Jonathan is capable and looking forward to being back in the AAC fold, and he will work with several of our groups upon rejoining us in June.


In addition, Scott Perkins as our communications director has proven that he has a can-do attitude and is willing to do whatever it takes to make the association successful. He will be moving into more of a legislative role, helping to assimilate our legislative package and working directly with the county clerks. It is expected that the majority of bills which affect our counties in the upcoming session will fall in the realm of elections or marriage so we expect this to be a busy role.


With Scott moving more into a legislative role, we have hired Christy


L. Smith as our communications coordinator, and she will work with Scott to produce County Lines – along with promoting the message of Arkansas counties in the area of social media. Christy will also focus on additional communications projects as we move forward. Christy is an award-winning journalist, and you will see that talent put to work in this magazine.


Finally, we continue to increase our legislative and risk management resources and have hired both Brandy McAllister and Lindsey Bailey


as attorneys for our team. Brandy joined the association full time as a newly licensed attorney this year and Lindsey will do the same in Au- gust. Both will have several duties which involve workers compensation, risk management and policy development and we expect to see great things from them in the coming years. Tese hires are a testament to the law-clerk program we began four years ago, and both of these ladies have matriculated through this system.


At the AAC it is very important that we not sit still. We will certainly miss those who have worked diligently to get us to where we are — and it has been my personal pleasure to work alongside two gentlemen that I hate to say goodbye to. We wish Jeff and Wes all the best in their future endeavors and retirement, and I know that they will both have incredibly fond memories of the AAC and county government as they move on.


President John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” I appreciate that we in county government in Arkansas do a great job of keeping one eye on the past … on what got us here, while the other stays firmly focused on the future and what has yet to be done.


To both Jeff and Wes, a sincere thanks from me, the AAC staff, and all of the county governments in Arkansas. May God bless you both with a prosperous and happy future!


Endorsed 8 COUNTY LINES, SPRING 2014


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