Employee of the Month 2020

Every other month a worthy employee of our city is recognized as an outstanding employee. It is an honor to work for the city and there are many employees who go above and beyond their duties to make our city great. To learn more about our recipients of this award, see below:

December 2020 Employee of the Month - Chris Lindquist

Fire/EMT Department - Chris Lindquist

Chris Lindquist has worked for Santaquin City for the past twenty-two years in our Fire/EMS department. He is currently the city’s Emergency Manager and has been serving in this capacity for the past two years. After he was made Santaquin’s Emergency Manager, he set out to get his Utah Emergency Manager Certification. This Program patterns the Certified Emergency Manager© Program offered by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) which he is already working toward earning.

October 2020 Employee of the Month - Austin Lerwill

Police Department - Austin Lerwill

Officer Austin Lerwill is being recognized as our October 2020 Employee of the Month. In the words of a member of the police department, “He is probably one of the most genuine and kind people you’ll meet.” Family is extremely important to him, and he is very devoted to them, as well as his job. He and his wife, Talyr, have been married for 4 years and they adopted a little girl from the Marshall Islands a couple years ago and now are expecting a baby boy any day.

August 2020 Employee of the Month - Shannon Hoffman

Administrative Services Department-Shannon Hoffman

Shannon Hoffman is our Administrative Services Director and City Treasurer and has been employed by Santaquin City for nearly 21 years. She has direct responsibility over all aspects of human resources from personnel recruitment to payroll and benefits administration and everything in-between. She also has supervisory and budgetary responsibility over the administration, utility billing, cemetery, and government building departments; as well as the Santaquin, Genola, and Goshen Justice Courts.

June 2020 Employee of the Month - Jenna Worthen

Police Department–Jenna Worthen

April 2020 Employee of the Month - Taylor Sutherland

Fire & EMS Department-Taylor Sutherland

February 2020 Employee of the Month - Hayden Mageno

Leisure Services Department-Hayden Mageno

Hayden is an office clerk for the Recreation Department. She is our swiss army knife and does a variety of things to help the Department, including being the front line with customer service, registering recreation participants, helping with special events, site supervisor for sports and also recording minutes for the Recreation Board and Museum Board. We appreciate Hayden’s willingness to be such a great team player!

Employee of the Month 2020

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