Employee recruitment and infrastructure funding were among items on the minds of area city officials who attended a League of Cities listening session in Minot
However, she’s still in the original office where she started.
“We have just kept it updated as much as possible to make it feel warm and cozy. But I started with a chair and a card table in this office,” she said. “The mayor had a desk, and the auditor had a desk and I had a card table and a chair.”
A Garrison native, Affeldt attended the National College of Business in Rapid City for a year, dreaming of becoming a certified public accountant. Plans changed when she took a summer job with the city auditor’s office, helping with the water billing program from her card table desk, the Minot Daily News reported.
Garrison City Auditor Diane Affeldt stands in council chambers March 18.
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GARRISON – After more than 42 years in the Garrison city auditor’s office, there’s not much about small town government operations that can take Diane Affeldt by surprise. The long-time city auditor and current president of the North Dakota League of Cities may not have seen everything because she admits she’s always learning, but she has seen a lot.
“When they always ask for a job description, I say, ‘Well, there is a job description, but how many pages do you want, because it’s everything. This is kind of the main hub of a city for everybody,” Affeldt said.