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Fire Fighter Trainee Exam Team Named L.A. County SuperSTARS!

This week, the Board of Supervisors recognized our Human Resources Division’s Firefighter Trainee Exam Team as L.A. County SuperSTARS! In August 2007 we reported that this team received a County STARS (Special Talents for Achieving Remarkable Services) Award in the area of Fiscal Responsibility for their efforts in restructuring the Fire Fighter Trainee examination to an open continuous filing system, resulting in a 75 percent cost savings. The STARS selection committee reviewed all the County STARS recipients of 2007 to select the "best of the best." The committee selected only eight out of the 70 entries to be named SuperSTARS in the Countywide Strategic Plan areas of Service Excellence, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Excellence, and Fiscal Responsibility. Our Firefighter Trainee Exam Team was selected as the SuperSTAR in the area of Fiscal Responsibility for strengthening the County's fiscal capacity. The project was a collaborative effort between our Department, Internal Services Department and the Department of Human Resources. The team members each received a commemorative scroll during their recognition at the Board meeting. Pictured left to right are Marc Shartzer (DHR), Fire Captain Anderson Mackey, Inas Awad, Debra Thomas, Carla Williams, Sam Komolafe (ISD), Dan Lu (IDS), Danny Chu (ISD), and Nick Apeles (DHR).
(Photo by John DeLeon)