Mason City globe Gazette, IA
11-03-06
Floyd County Extension director takes specialist job
CHARLES CITY — Brenda Schmitt, director of Iowa State University
Extension in Floyd County, has accepted a position as ISU Extension
Resource Management Specialist.
She began her new position Nov. 1 at the ISU Extension Cerro Gordo County
office in Mason City.
She will serve 10 Northeast Iowa counties: Black Hawk, Butler, Cerro Gordo,
Floyd, Franklin, Grundy, Hancock, Mitchell, Winnebago and Worth.
In her new role, Schmitt will work with counties to provide resource management
information and education.
“I’m excited about the opportunities,” she said, in a prepared statement. “There is
tremendous need for resource management information and education.”
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program; First-Time Homebuyer
Program; Money Craze, for teenagers; poverty simulations and financial
counseling are among the programs she hopes to implement throughout the
region.
A 1980 graduate of the College of Design at Iowa State University, Schmitt
received her master’s degree in Family and Consumer Science at Iowa State
University in 2005.
She had served as Extension director in Floyd County for six years.
She and her husband, Norman, are the parents of three children: Renee, of
Boise, Idaho; Katie, a student at Iowa State University; and Greg, a student at
North Iowa Area Community College.
The couple resides in Rudd.