The Bartholomew County Health Department is not hiring a replacement for former health department administrator Collis Mayfield, who retired earlier this year.
Instead, the department will revert its leadership structure to the way it was in 2015, before the health department restructured several job titles and changed Mayfield’s job title to administrator, said Link Fulp, director of environmental health.
Under the new structure, Fulp will continue to serve as director of the environmental health division, and Amanda Organist will continue to be director of the nursing division, Fulp said.
However, Fulp and Organist will split Mayfield’s former duties in their respective divisions, including managing payroll, grants, paperwork, among others, he said.
Fulp, who also is a full inspector and oversees the onsite waste water program, said the health department intends to hire a new inspector to take over his duties as inspector because he has taken on some of Mayfield’s former job duties.
The announcement was made Thursday during the Bartholomew County Board of Health’s meeting, in the Bartholomew County Council chambers.
“I can no longer do all of those tasks,” Fulp said during the meeting. “And what we have determined is that instead of having the administrator position filled, we’re going to have the director positions and replace an inspector. …We’re going to have five inspectors and then me as the director of environmental health.”
The health department has had five inspectors on staff since at least 1990, Fulp said.
The leadership structure the department will revert to is the same structure it had from at least 1989 to November 2015, when the Bartholomew County Council designated Mayfield as health department administrator.
Mayfield told The Republic in 2015 that a Muncie-based consulting firm specializing in personnel administration, Waggoner, Irwin, Scheele and Associates, determined that Fulp and Organist, who held titles of assistant director in their divisions at the time, were actually running their divisions.
As a result, Fulp was named director of the environmental health division, Organist received the title of nursing division director and the department created a new position, administrator, for Mayfield.
Fulp said there is no timetable for when the department will hire the new inspector, though he hopes to fill the position by January.
“Realistically, until 2015, there wasn’t anybody designated over both departments,” Fulp said Thursday.
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Instead of hiring a replacement for former Bartholomew County Health Department Administrator Collis Mayfield, who retired earlier this year, the health department will revert to the leadership structure it had from at least 1989 to 2015, when Mayfield was designated as administrator.
Under the new structure, Link Fulp will continue to serve as director of the environmental health division, and Amanda Organist will continue to be director of the nursing division, Fulp said.
Fulp and Organist will split Mayfield’s former duties in their respective divisions, including managing payroll, grants, paperwork, among others, Fulp said.
The health department plans to hire a new inspector to take over Fulp’s duties as inspector.
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