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Adopt a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Yolanda D. Garrett, Legal Procedures Clerk, upon her retirement from the Solano County Probation Department with 22 years of dedicated public service.
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Probation Department recommends the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Yolanda D. Garrett, Legal Procedures Clerk, upon her retirement from the Solano County Probation Department, with 22 years of dedicated public service to Solano County.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Ms. Garrett began her employment with the Solano County Probation Department as a Legal Procedures Clerk on August 24, 1998. Ms. Garrett began her career as one of the Adult Disposition Legal Procedures Clerks. Within her first year, Ms. Garrett was praised for surpassing the department quantity of processing standard of eighty cases per week. In June of 2001, Ms. Garrett was reassigned to the Adult Intake desk where she continued to excel. Within the first three months of her new assignment, she was acknowledged for personally setting up four hundred thirty-one new cases. Throughout the years, Ms. Garrett has continuously been praised by her supervisors for her excellent organizational skills and for her ability to consistently meet deadlines.
Ms. Garrett has been a part of numerous changes within the department and ultimately her work assignments. When she began her career with the Probation department, the Legal Procedures Clerks were using Dictaphones and typewriters. Throughout her career she has experienced many growing pains such as office moves, implementation of a new electronic case management system, implementation of a new electronic file tracking and management system, numerous legislation changes affecting work processes, the addition of the Centers for Positive Change and the addition of the Youth Achievem...
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