Greensburg ? Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is helping the city of Greensburg and Kiowa County rebuild their local governments.

“I’ve been doing anything you can imagine to help them become a functional government,” Shew said Friday as he talked on a cell phone from Greensburg.

Shew is one of several Douglas County and Lawrence city employees either in Greensburg or headed there to assist with relief efforts in the aftermath of the May 4 tornado.

On Friday, Bill Stark, a division chief with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical, arrived in Greensburg to serve as deputy to the incident management team commander. Stark will assume the role of incident commander for the entire tornado recovery operation Tuesday through Friday next week.

In addition, six Lawrence police officers will be deployed to Greensburg on Sunday and will stay there for one week. Another 10 officers will leave on May 20 for a one-week deployment.

In addition to four county employees who went to Greensburg this week, four more will join the effort next week. They are Keith Campbell, deputy county clerk for elections; Patty Volle, a dispatcher in the Emergency Communications Center; Jackie Waggoner, director of purchasing; and Mike Perkins, director of operations for the Department of Public Works. They will depart Thursday and be there for a week.

The city government of Greensburg had been operating out of a tent most of the week until it moved into a trailer, Shew said. City Hall was destroyed. The courthouse is still standing, but county services are in a school building in Mullinville, a town 10 miles away, Shew said.

“The county and city workers have lost their homes,” Shew said. “We’re trying to help them make decisions and become resources for their citizens but still take some of the burden off of them in making things happen.”

Shew said workdays start as early as 5 a.m. but end by the 8 p.m. curfew that is still in place. He said he was amazed at the amount of support that has come into Greensburg from across the state and the nation.

“There is a tremendous amount of cleanup that has occurred,” he said. “They’ve come a long way in one week.”

Also going to Greensburg next week is Midge Grinstead, executive director of the Lawrence Humane Society.

Seven members of the Douglas County All Hazards Behavioral Health Team from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center are going to Greensburg today.

The group will offer crisis management services to community members who are tornado victims. The team is trained in on-site crisis response and will be in Kiowa County for four days.