VANDERHOEF SEEKS EXTENSION OF COUNTY’S EARLY-RETIREMENT PLAN

VANDERHOEF SEEKS EXTENSION OF COUNTY’S EARLY-RETIREMENT PLAN County Executive Scott Vanderhoef says he hopes another 50 to 75 county employees will sign up for early retirement. That would be in addition to the 112 who already have taken the county up on its buyout offer. County officials said yesterday the program’s first-year savings in salaries and benefits should be about $6,000,000. Vanderhoef acknowledged that the county workforce of just under 27-hundred employees is now at its lowest level in 25 years. But he insisted the county is still managing to provide residents with necessary services.