Scaturico touts business, management strengths

Cindy Scaturico suggests she would carry powerful business enterprise and management experience to the Carroll County Board of Supervisors if she’s elected to fill the 5th District seat in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Scaturico cites acquiring more than 20 decades of encounter in production functions management.

Carroll County Republican Party’s information launch this month announcing Scaturico’s nomination mentioned she has intensive track record in manufacturing performing with Hormel, Butterball and Smithfield Foods.

The release explained, “She is benefits-pushed and a hugely arranged experienced with encounter in functions administration, security and environmental sustainability.”

Scaturico suggests she features a “track document of profitable job administration that resulted in substantial charge financial savings and charge avoidance.”

Also, she mentioned, “successful collective-bargaining negotiations and administration with a document of zero grievances submitted.”

“The ideal way to solve a issue,” she suggests, “is to keep it from taking place. Interactions are crucial to any productive business.”

Scaturico claims she has sufficient experience in supervision of personnel via managing large teams of persons, the capacity to reach quantifiable outcomes by way of helpful teamwork and commitment.

“I feel in currently being a mentor and making interactions by means of trust, caring and trustworthiness,” she claims. “These are critical characteristics of a terrific manager.”

The Republicans’ announcement of her candidacy says she has a bachelor’s diploma in small business administration from Robert Morris College in Chicago and is a candidate for a mater’s in pure assets sustainability from Virginia Tech University.

Scaturico claims of concerns facing Carroll County that budgeting is always a primary concentrate.

“We need to have to prioritize expending to achieve a lot more with considerably less, separate would like from requirements to make sure we are becoming great stewards of taxpayer income,” she states.

Scaturico listed what she believes are traits of a very good supervisor:

— Wish to improve county govt.

— Remaining ready to see the huge image of the price range.

— Capacity to be flexible when assigned to subcommittees that may possibly or might not be their location of expertise.

— Being capable to personal an situation on behalf of the citizens of the county.

She also offers the Qualified Iowa County Supervisor definition, expressing a good county supervisor’s responsibility is to “protect and protect the rights, privileges and assets of the county or of its people, and to maintain and enhance the peace, safety, health, welfare, consolation and convenience of its citizens.”

Scaturico states she needs to be of assistance to the Carroll County community.

Scaturico, 47, and her husband, Peter, moved to Carroll a yr ago when he turned plant manager for Monogram Meals in Denison. Cindy and Peter have a few daughters: Chelsea, 28, who’s a department manager for Pella Corp. in Carroll Gracey 19 and Sophia, 10. They also have four grandchildren.

Although serving as environmental coordinator for Smithfield Foodstuff, Scaturico states, she led the plant’s crew in a storm-debris cleanup at Carroll City Cemetery.

“After a harming storm came by way of Carroll last July, the cemetery was left with substantial limbs, modest branches and leaves,” she states. “Our crew coordinated with the director of Parks and Recreation for cleanup and disposal. We experienced extra folks clearly show up than predicted, and absolutely everyone was glad to aid. We even obtained a pleasant thank-you letter from Mayor (Mark) Beardmore.

“The Smithfield staff also been given an environmental award for water cost savings during an environmental conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This award came with a $3,000 look at to donate to our preference of charitable triggers. Our workforce chose to divide concerning the Carroll Hearth Office and Animal Rescue of Carroll.” Scaturico has been an Animal Rescue of Carroll volunteer.

Scaturico suggests she’s toured the Carroll Metropolis Wastewater Plant with the facility’s superintendent to grow to be a lot more educated about that process.

She states she also arrived jointly with representatives from the Iowa Office of Normal Sources to have a water-key break at the Smithfield plant, reducing the effect to waterways in the space.

She volunteered at the Republican District Convention in April and served as a poll watcher in past November’s typical election.

She adds that teaming with “some tricky-working and dedicated ladies” they’ve brought back again the Republican Women’s Club, and Scaturico is now the club’s president.

She’s functioning from Democrat Tim Tracy for the seat, which opened with the resignation of Rich Ruggles because of to overall health motives.

The 5th District is made up of the northeast portion of the metropolis of Carroll. The candidates should reside in the district even so, all voters in the county solid ballots on the posture.