Williamson County Commissioners Court awarded its employees of the year and a project team from the parks department software conversion project with plaques and awards. The award recipients were selected by a committee from 34 nominations in five categories. Four employees who received the award include Tanya Kunz, a pretrial services specialist with pretrial services for exceptional services; Julie Kiley, first assistant county auditor with the county auditor’s office, for professional leadership overseeing a staff of 22 employees; Johnny Grimaldo, senior purchasing coordinator purchasing department, who received the WilCo Way award for managers; and Kimberly Farris, a paramedic and senior medical officer with emergency medical services, received the WilCo Way award for nonmanagers.

“This is given to a person, but that one person could never achieve any award without the group of people that come alongside that person,” Farris said in a short documentary about the recipients that was shown in the court Aug. 9.

The parks department software conversion project team included Minnie Beteille, Inky Chandler-Mertz and Tammy McCulley with information technology services; Kerstin Hancock and Grimaldo with purchasing; Melanie Denny and Cortney Husband with the Office of County Auditor; and Benita Bonner and Robert Moss with the parks department.

The employee of the year award recipients received an engraved plaque and a check for $500. The project team of the year award recipients received an engraved insulated cup and lunch with Judge Bill Gravell. Funding for the program comes from proceeds from county vending machines.