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-5- a l research. For instance, last year Economic Development employed a graduate student who looked at potential development in the County's Economic Development Districts and produced maps of the areas, along with ownership data. In previous years, Economic Development has employed interns to develop a database of retail businesses in the county and to verify employment size of local businesses. The budget provides about 200 hours of internship work, Elections Temporary wages are used to pay five to six precinct officials for each of the 43 precincts for Election Day with two to three elections per year. In additional, Hands are used to pay as precinct officials for the three one stop voting sites, Each site has three to five officials who work for two weeks including Saturdays. On occasion, other temporary employees may be hired to work in the Elections office to perform data entry and filing duties, particularly if there is a large voter registration such as for a presidential election, Emergency Management To deliver a basic standard of service, Emergency Management's use of temporary employees is to staff the ambulances to ensure that four transport vehicles are available to handle the emergency transportation needs. In addition to the staffing of the ambulances, these personnel are used to fill in for vacant positions for both transport and treatment, due to resignations, sick and vacation leave. These personnel are also used to staff events such as Hog day, Halloween, and other large crowd programs to ensure adequate response to medical emergencies. Due to the increase in the permanent employees in the transport division an increase in the temporary employee budget was made in 2005 -06 to accommodate the additional leave time that will be generated by more employees. It is more effective both in terms of cost and impacts on staff to use temporary employment rather than to require additional overtime hours by permanent staff. Environment and Resource Conservation Environment and Resource Conservation regularly uses a graduate school student to help with a variety of tasks, often at a high level of research and report- writing, that staff do not have time to do. For example, the last two interns have written sections of the State of the Environment report and performed much data collection toward that end, among other duties. The graduate intern is an important part of helping get major tasks done and without question some things would not get accomplished and /or other projects would be affected by the re- tasking of existing staff if the intern was not available, Finance The Finance Department currently uses a retired County employee to perform various clerical /office assistance type duties, The Finance Department has operated without a