LOCALS LOVE US: Joyce Laudenschlager wears many hats as she serves Burnet

JARED FIELDS • PICAYUNE STAFF

BURNET — Being voted Best City Employee in the The Picayune’s 2013 “Locals Love Us” awards came as a surprise to Joyce Laudenschlager.

The assistant city manager is in her 27th year of working for Burnet, but she often works behind the scenes.

“A lot of people are more visible,” Laudenschlager said.

Maybe to the public, but within City Hall, she is a well-known fixture who wears many hats.

Originally hired as the city’s director of finance — a position she still holds — Laudenschlager also is certified as a city secretary, a court clerk and a court administrator and has been the interim director of Galloway-Hammond Recreation Center for almost a year.

With the Williamson County YMCA expected to take over management of Galloway-Hammond by the fall and the city looking to hire a new director of finance, Laudenschlager might be handing a few hats to new people.

But that won’t matter to those in the city she sees every day.

“They said that whoever gets my place, they don’t want a new boss, they want me,” Laudenschlager said. “For the most part, I get along with most everybody. I’ve only (been) mad a couple times in 27 years, so that’s not bad.”

jared@thepicayune.com