Every employer wants to attract and retain qualified and educated employees. The most creative benefit packages are often born out of that pursuit. Reporter Mike Lipsitz tells us about a big, new benefit program from the area’s smallest water agency…
In Landers last night, the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency Board of Directors approved a new Student Loan Assistance Benefit Program for agency employees enrolled in applicable degree programs or who are already degreed and have student loan debt. Under the program, a vested employee could receive as much as $10,000 toward an Associates’ degree and up to $30,000 for a Bachelors’ degree. Among the anticipated benefits to the water district are enhanced employee performance and professionalism. In other business, the board bid farewell to outgoing directors Dennis Staley and Terry Burkhardt, neither of whom ran for re-election.
