County hires first courts administrator

Jerry Moyer starts July 1, according to a county news release.

Moyer will manage the courts’ daily operations, including security and bailiffs, human resources, fiscal management, information technology and record management. He also will provide coordination between the county sheriff, jail, juvenile office, prosecuting attorney, pre-trial services and circuit clerk, as well as the state public defender’s office, office of the state courts administrator and other agencies, the release said.

Those responsibilities previously were left to the county’s 14 judges and jury commissioners.

Moyer’s salary is $72,509 and is funded by revenues once dedicated to Springfield-Greene County Emergency-911 Services that were freed up by the 1/8-cent 911 sales tax approved in April 2007.

Moyer previously spent 24 years as Barton County circuit clerk before retiring in 2006.

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