With that termination of funding, (the council) made a decision to first decrease her hours to 10 per week. In the next meeting, that I did not attend, they determined that she would no longer serve as director.

The ability to determine what constitutes risk, and the requirement to report that risk to executive decision makers, can be a highly political activity requiring excellent written and oral communication skills with a good knowledge of business. Generally, these skills have been lacking in traditional technically-oriented information security specialists,

There's a lot of opportunity in your county. I would love to see an office here and have volunteers here ... a few hours a week or every other week. That's something I think could really help this county.

Because these are federal dollars, we temporarily suspended payment, because the office was not producing. After two suspensions, they continued to not meet requirements, so we permanently withdrew funding.

No, it was more like you're kind of sitting there surprised. When somebody makes that decision you've got to respect it. That's it. We have to move on.

Usually, once someone makes the decision to come to the neighborhood, it just takes finding a home that suits them.