County Department To Protect Local Environment
CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Cook County has a new department head whose job description requires her to make the quality of life better for the county's residents.
As WBBM Newsradio 780's Mike Krauser reports, Deborah Stone, according to the county officials, will be the "eyes, ears and nose" for the federal and state Environmental Protection Agencies.
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Stone is the new $110,000 per year head of the 27-person, $1.7 million Cook County Department of Environmental Control.
Most of that money goes to salaries.
"I think that what the Cook County Department of Environmental Control does is tremendously important," Stone said.
Stone's job, aside from overseeing the monitoring of air and water quality, will be to make Cook County Government greener.
She says will work with all of the local communities "to plan and figure out what our environmental issues of the future are, and how we're going to address them collectively."
Stone was most recently with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
