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Barnstable County Administrator John (Jack) Yunits, Jr. has announced that he is stepping down from his position.
Mr. Yunits made his announcement in an email dated Thursday, February 18. He was hired as county administrator in February 2016. He took over for Interim County Administrator Michael Brillhart who had been in place since 2013.
âMy present contract expires in two weeks,â Mr. Yunits said, âand I have been blessed with another transformative opportunity to move back to the private sector.â
Mr. Yunits said the decision to leave his current post was a difficult one, as difficult as the decision he made 25 years ago to leave his law practice and run for mayor of Brockton, he said. He served as mayor from 1996 to 2006.
A new building to house the Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension tops the list of capital improvement projects discussed by the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners at their regular meeting on Wednesday, January 13.
The Cooperative Extension, a department of the county government that plans and conducts educational programs based on local needs and interests, was operated out of the basement of the Registry of Deeds in the Barnstable County Complex until moving into a leased property in Yarmouth in June 2020.
According to Michael Maguire, the extensionâs director, the lease costs the county approximately $89,000 per year.
Mr. Maguire described continuing the lease to house the department as a âlosing propositionâ for the county, as he expects leasing will become more expensive in the years to come.