Seney helps promote tourism in Kosciusko County

During the past nine years, Sandra Seney’s role and responsibilities within the Kosciusko County Convention and Visitors Bureau have steadily increased.

However, the mission to which she is committed remains the same — promoting Kosciusko County to people who are visiting or might be interesting in relocating.

Seney came to KCCVB after the 2013 retirement of her former boss at Ginter Electric in Warsaw. She was working with Indiana Workforce Development, which paired her with an opening at the visitors bureau.

“I’m a very organized person, detail oriented,” she said. “I like to plan to be sure what’s going on. At that time the executive director, Mary Kittrell, was looking for someone who could organize her files and do some planning. I had an interview and was hired in January 2014.”

Her initial job responsibilities included working with travel groups that came to the county. She would contact local businesses to arrange different activities for the groups while they were in the area. Additionally, Seney helped sell ads for the CVB’s visitor’s guide. A nonprofit organization, the KCCVB is funded by the innkeeper’s tax in Kosciusko County.

In 2015, Kittrell left the CVB, and was replaced by Jill Boggs. The new director wanted to stop outsourcing the organization’s finances. Seney had some experience in that area in her previous job and was thus given the additional responsibilities of managing the CVB’s books.

She and Boggs took a QuickBooks course together, after which it was decided to bring payrolls and all other financial aspects of the business in-house, with the exception of taxes.

Boggs also worked to rewrite everyone’s job descriptions and convert each to a salaried employee. As part of the change, Seney earned the new job title of operations manager. She continued to perform many of her former tasks while adding new responsibilities along the way. In 2020, due to COVID, two other positions at the CVB were eliminated, which added to the duties of the remaining three employees, including Seney.

In January 2022, Boggs took a new job and was replaced the following April by Cori Humes. Shortly after that, Mitchell Randall, the CVB’s marketing coordinator, also left for a different opportunity, and was replaced by Laura Rothhaar. This left Seney as the CVB’s longest serving staff member.

Seney shared that when asked to be interviewed for this article, she asked Humes, “Why my job, what do I do?” Humes replied, “Well, you keep the place running, and without you, we can’t operate.”

“So I do keep them all on track, who’s got appointments, schedule appointments and make sure we’re all going,” Seney said. “I make sure the building is open and we have everything we need for the building. I do all of that and if Cori or Laura needs help with something, it’s usually passed on to me.

“Tourism has a big economic impact on the county. Our main goal here is to promote Kosciusko County for visitors to come in for leisure. But we also want people to visit our area, like our area, then come back and either bring their business here or come here and change jobs to work here and live and enjoy what Kosciusko County has to offer.”

Seney added that in her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family. Her husband, Scott, serves as a guidance counselor at Warsaw Community High School. Together they share three adult children and four grandchildren.

The KCCVB is located at 111 Capital Dr, Warsaw. For further information, stop by or call (574) 269-6090.

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