The village pays Druetzler's salary and general operating costs. TECH also has a board of six directors, including Village and park district representatives and a high school liaison. The board helps promote TECH as a service, and the liaisons communicate new ideas and information to the board as needed. There have been many successes since TECH was developed. For example, if a teen does a great job of cleaning a resident's pool one time, it often becomes a summer job.
Residents pass out the names and phone numbers of the teens to other interested residents.
With the large numbers of teens that work for TECH it is surprising to hear that there have been no reported accidents or cases where students have made a person unhappy. Druetzler agrees with McDowell. As long as I' ve been here, I can't recall any situation where there has been an accident on a TECH job. And, incredibly, there haven't been any cases where the employers were dissatisfied with the teen either. TECH, which has been in existence since 1978, is quite successful.