The Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce has a verbal agreement for a new Director on a six month temporary basis.

The name of the new Director will be formally announced next week. Dennis Beson, Chamber of Commerce CEO, said the woman they’ve hired has more than 25 years of economic development experience.

“[She] is somebody that can hit the ground running, won’t need a lot of handling and can put us almost immediately in connection with regionally and the State and I think that’s a big component that maybe we’ve been missing,” said Beson.

The goal for the new Director will be to work in Junction City three days a week. “The other two days she’ll still be working for us, but either she’ll be at meetings or at conferences or whatever it has to be that ‘s gonna focus and drive economic development in Geary County,” said Beson.

After a six month period, if both parties – the new Director, and Chamber – approve of the working relationship, there is a good possibility that within a year the Director would become a full-time employee that would live in Geary County.

The contract for the six month deal has not yet been signed.

The EDC job has been vacant since April 2016.