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Applications for the position are due May 17. 8:30 am, Apr. 25, 2021 × HERON LAKE — More than two months after the sudden retirement of its administrator, the Heron Lake Watershed District’s board of managers took steps during a Wednesday morning meeting to begin the process of filling the vacancy. Prior to working on a job description, however, the managers discussed updates to the district’s personnel and benefits policies, including changes in the accrual rate of paid time off (PTO). Any new hire will earn eight hours of PTO per month, with only 40 hours allowed to be carr...

Citizen cites concerns in Heron Lake Watershed District Lloyd Kalfs asks Heron Lake Watershed District managers who will be doing water monitoring and carrying out the mission of the district in the absence of administrator, technician. 1:00 am, Mar. 13, 2021 × HERON LAKE — With the retirement of its administrator and the resignation of its technician, the Heron Lake Watershed District’s board of managers heard from a concerned resident during Friday’s meeting about continued efforts to monitor water quality in the district. Lloyd Kalfs of Okabena, who once inter...

Heron Lake Watershed District votes to hire temp for administrative services Property tax-funded district to pay four times more for temp work than what previous administrator offered on as-needed basis. 7:00 am, Mar. 5, 2021 × HERON LAKE — Following the swearing in of new managers Jason Freking of Heron Lake and Randy Lubben of Reading on Tuesday, the Heron Lake Watershed District’s board voted unanimously to hire temporary administrative services from Sartell-based Resource Training & Solutions. HLWD Treasurer Mark Bartosh informed fellow managers that the nonprof...

Heron Lake Watershed District administrator announces sudden retirement Jan Voit leaves the Heron Lake Watershed District after 38 years, citing a board of managers who don't support conservation and a county who wants to take over drainage authority. 5:00 am, Feb. 20, 2021 × Voit HERON LAKE — The Heron Lake Watershed District is without an administrator and watershed technician following a retirement and resignation announced within days of each other. Jan Voit, who worked for the watershed for 38 years — much of that time as its administrator — sent a letter Feb...