Corps of Engineers recognizes Savage, Minn., resident

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Savage, Minn., resident Monique Johs as one of its four Civil Servants of the Year.  

The St. Paul District presents this award annually to the top three or four of its 650 employees. Johs, who's worked for the Corps of Engineers for more than 5 years, is a lead administrative secretary at the district’s headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Johs received this award in recognition of her outstanding administrative and technical competence and professional commitment. “Monique [Johs] is highly skilled and is called upon to train others and leads an administrative team that supports emergency deployments for natural disasters, including the June 2014 Minnesota floods,” said Johs’ supervisor and the district’s Chief of Engineering and Construction Michael Bart. “Her technical skills are enhanced by authentic caring and generosity toward others.”    

Johs will receive her award at the 38th Annual Minnesota Federal Civil Servant of the Year Awards in St. Paul, Minn., at the Crown Plaza Hotel May 8.

The nearly 650 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, employees working at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states serve the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. Through the Corps’ Fiscal Year 2014 $100 million budget, nearly 1,600 non-Corps jobs were added to the regional economy as well as $155 million to the national economy. For more information, see www.mvp.usace.army.mil.

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