Darcy Ellis Email & Phone Number

Attends meetings of the County Board of Supervisors; prepares minutes of complex, and sometimes sensitive Board agenda items; coordinates agenda items with County departments and the County Administrative Office and schedules agenda items. Executes or communicates details of Board actions; composes, publishes, records, circulates, and maintains official records of the Board of Supervisors’ meetings and actions taken. Coordinates, organizes, and performs the day to day operations of the Board of Supervisors within the County Administrative Office, including a variety of routine to complex clerical, secretarial and budgetary functions; and, with direction from the County Administrator, develops and implements operational procedures and systems to effectively implement the goals, policies, and priorities adopted by the Board of Supervisors. Prepares the Board of Supervisors Division budget; assists the County Administrator and County Administrative Office in the preparation of the annual County Budget, when requested. Accepts and distributes legal notices served upon the County. Works with the County Administrative Officer to plan and prepare Board agendas; receives and reviews agenda items to ensure that all submittals are complete, and adhere to County Policy and legal requirements. Prepares and distributes ordinances, resolutions and documents resulting from Board actions, including literal transcripts of meetings. Establishes, maintains and indexes extensive information and document files for the Board of Supervisors. Provides legislative aide and analyst support for the Board of Supervisors and County Administrative Officer on local, state and federal issues; maintains and updates the Board’s Legislative Platform; researches a variety of issues, gathers requested data, recommends appropriate responses/action to be taken; and provides back-up materials for Board of Supervisor members upon request.

Oversee the Editorial Department as it produces a thrice weekly newsprint publication plus special editions and magazines such as the Eastern Sierra Fishing Guide and Inyo County Profiles. This includes editing, managing the staff (assigning stories, tracking hours) as well as contributing to the writing and directing layout.

Directed the newsroom of a thrice weekly newsprint publication, assigning stories to staff and editing/directing layout for the newspaper as well as its ancillary publications. Also contributed articles and photographs.

Covered Bishop City Council, Inyo County Board of Supervisors, environmental issues, crime, justice, Northern Inyo Hospital and Southern Inyo Hospital, Caltrans, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, features.

Bishop, California

Responded 24/7 to emergencies, captured video footage and obtained details for the reporters of a nightly television newscast.