Dan Reese has been promoted to oversee Luzerne County’s consolidated GIS/Mapping and Planning and Zoning Department, according to the latest human resources department personnel report for August.

Council voted earlier this year to merge the departments as recommended by the administration to enhance decisions related to planning and development.

Reese has a bachelor’s degree in geography that includes a concentration in urban and regional development from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in geographic and cartographic sciences from George Mason University.

He was a transportation planner for eight years in the Virginia Metropolitan Planning Organization before starting work for Luzerne County’s GIS/Mapping department in October 2016, first as a senior GIS analyst and

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