Both candidates who underwent the interview process to become Island County’s first county administrator have declined to take the job.
Commissioner Jill Johnson said the commissioners are “disappointed” but that “it can be difficult to recruit people to work in the county.”
She went on to say that “the idea of living on an island is romantic until you decided to actually do it.”
Commissioner Melanie Bacon restated an earlier comment in that “having a county administrator will free commissioners up to work on policy issues. The commissioners currently end up spending a lot of time on the minutiae of administration, such as hiring, setting salaries and discipline.”
For more details, see the story by Jessie Stensland in the Whidbey News-Times.
