Sharon Friedrichsen, the head of what was formerly the Housing and Community Development department and now an assistant director in the Community Services Department, “will separate from County service” on 8/3, according to County HR Director Jeri Muth. Friedrichsen — one of many HCD directors under whose watch the Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corp. faltered — was the department’s seventh leader in seven years, before HCD came under the umbrella of a new, consolidated department. Dinah Lockhart, the community development project manager for the City of Lompoc, has been hired to fill the position.
