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Lukasik (Photo Courtesy of Lackawanna County)<\/p>\nSCRANTON \u2014 Lackawanna County\u2019s director of roads and bridges\u00a0will soon retire but continue consulting for the county to support a number of ongoing projects and the transition to a new director.<\/p>\n
Commissioners Thom Welby, Bill Gaughan and Chris Chermak recently approved a six-month consulting agreement with Director Larry Lukasik commencing June 1. Lukasik, 66, began his tenure with the county in 2008 and will retire as an employee at the end of May, he confirmed.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be paid $100 per hour as a contractor and work up to 16 hours per week during the term of the consulting agreement. In that capacity, he\u2019ll provide advice and recommendations to county officials, assist in the preparation of schedules, consult on ongoing infrastructure and construction projects, and help with the transition of the next director, per the agreement.<\/p>\n
Lukasik (Photo Courtesy of Lackawanna County)<\/p>\n
The county advertised the director position in a late-March job posting<\/a> that closed this past Wednesday. It was not immediately clear how many people applied, but the listed job duties<\/a> include scheduling upgrades, repairs and inspections of about 151 bridges and 30 miles of road and collaborating with the state Department of Transportation, the county engineer and municipal officials to complete roads and bridges projects, among others.<\/p>\n Chermak, who touted Lukasik as a long-tenured and \u201cvery knowledgeable person,\u201d discussed the pending vacancy last week before commissioners approved the consulting agreement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are searching for someone to replace Larry,\u201d he said. \u201cI would hope that we can find someone that has some engineering experience, some bridge experience, road and maintenance experience (and experience) dealing with employees.\u201d<\/p>\n Chermak also touted the county\u2019s \u201csmall but mighty\u201d roads and bridges crew and its \u201cgreat\u201d equipment and facilities.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it\u2019s a good place to work,\u201d he said. \u201cThe county is a good place to work.\u201d<\/p>\n While the recent job posting already closed, county Chief of Staff Brian Jeffers said officials might post the job again, depending on the initial response.<\/p>\n \u201cWe would like multiple applicants to choose from,\u201d Jeffers said in a text message. \u201cIf we didn\u2019t get multiple candidates we will be posting again.\u201d<\/p>\n Noting his commitment to bring the next director \u201cup to speed,\u201d Lukasik confirmed he\u2019ll work with the county to help fill his position and facilitate a smooth transition thereafter.<\/p>\n Asked about his time leading the department ahead of his pending retirement, Lukasik said he \u201calways did what I thought was best for the people of Lackawanna County.\u201d<\/p>\n More information on the county\u2019s roads and bridges department<\/a>, including lists of county-owned roads and bridges, is available online at lackawannacounty.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 Lackawanna County\u2019s director of roads and bridges\u00a0will soon retire but continue consulting for the county to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-171046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}