For every Grand Rapids city employee who wears a badge or drives a plow, there’s the worker you don’t see.
“Everyone thinks of the people they come into contact with, but behind that is a very highly educated and trained infrastructure of people,” said Jon Koeze, the city’s longtime cable and TV administrator.
His is one example of the job opportunities that exist at Grand Rapids City Hall. Koeze’s been a big part of the way the city communicates with citizens for the last 30 years, having done everything from deal with cable companies to run the cities access channels.
“We were on the forefront of establishing a web presence for the City of Grand Rapids. I wrote the first web page for the City of Grand Rapids,” Koeze said.
But after three decades, Koeze is calling it quits. He’s retiring in July.
He’s not alone. City leaders expect to lose as many as 300 employees to retirement in the next three years, from snowplow drivers to the people who fix them.
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