Rohlfs selected as Logan County Airport and Farm Manager
Resigns from Logan County Board

 

[January 18, 2019] 

At the Regular Logan County Board on Tuesday, January 15th, a motion to appoint Gene Rohlfs as Airport Manager was brought forward with recommendation of the independent Airport Manager Advisory Committee.

The Logan County Airport Manager Advisory Committee met at noon on Monday, January 7, 2019 to make their decision.

The committee was chaired by Judge David Coogan with members Larry Collins and Eric Hill of Atlanta, JoAnne Marlin and Bill Sahs of Lincoln, in attendance.

The purpose of the meeting was to select a person to act as Logan County Airport Manager. The position was advertised in Lincoln Daily News, New Herald News, The Courier, and the Logan County website for the requisite number of days.

Logan County received one resume requesting consideration for the position of airport manager and a sealed resume was then passed on to the Advisory Committee.

The person applying for the position was Lincoln resident Gene Rohlfs, who is currently a member of the Logan County Board and chairman of the Airport Committee.

The Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend Mr. Rohlfs for the position of airport manager and to forward their recommendation to the full Logan County Board.

At the Regular Board meeting, Bateman made a motion to approve the recommendation from the independent Airport Manager Advisory Committee to hire Gene Rohlfs as the Airport and Farm Manager with a start date of February 1, 2019, based upon the resignation of Gene Rohlfs from the Logan County Board by January 31, 2019.

Gene Rohlfs being sworn in for this current term in December 2016.

The motion was approved 7-1 with Schaffenacker voting no because he said he wants to see Rohlfs stay on the board.

Rohlfs was not present for the vote.

As part of the Chairman’s Report, Davenport read Rohlfs’ resignation letter announcing his decision to resign his position as a Logan County Board member representing district four to accept the position of Logan County Airport and Farm Manager.
 

In the letter, Rohlfs said, “I regret the need for my departure from the board, but understand it is not permissible to remain on the board and be employed by the county.” Rohlfs also thanked “the board and the citizens of Logan County for the opportunity to serve the people as a board member and said he will miss that but will welcome being able to focus more directly on management duties of two very special entities of the county.”

Rohlfs officially accepted the position in the letter and he will begin serving in this role on February 1.

[Angela Reiners]