EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 13, 2022
County considers government with no administrator
Commissioners are
considering eliminating the
county executive position
all together following the
recent firing of administra-
tor Darrell Green.
At their July 6 meeting
commissioners discussed
adopting a form of gov-
ernment where individual
commissioners would be
assigned to “liaison” with
various department heads
instead of having a county
administrator oversee all
departments and report to
the board.
Commissioners were
modeling the new govern-
ment structure after Uma-
tilla and Crook counties
which use a similar system
of elected officials over-
seeing department heads.
Human Resource Director
Lindsay Grogan reported
to commissioners she had
talked to officials at Crook
County where department
heads submit time cards
and time off requests, for
instance, to individual com-
missioners for approval.
She said when there is a
discipline situation or a
written warning or termina-
tion of a department head,
for instance, it would have
to go through an executive
session or performance re-
view before the full board.
Grogan said in talks with
both Crook and Umatilla
Counties they both have a
“very active” county coun-
cil that “acts as a partner”
to human resources and the
board in personnel matters.
She also said there were
facilities managers or di-
rectors at these counties
that handle all construction
and facility contracts. In
Morrow County the district
attorney also serves as legal
counsel to the board of
commissioners.
Commissioner Melissa
Lindsay hesitated to say
a commissioner would be
the only one overseeing a
department head, saying
it was more of a “support
system” being established.
“This doesn’t mean any
commissioner is the gate
keeper or the sole contact
for a department. It means,
‘How do I get this to a
board of commissioner’s
conversation?’ It is a sup-
port system and not a gate
keeper. I think if you have
a commissioner you have
worked on with a project,
all three commissioners
are more than willing to be
a sounding board. I don’t
want to confuse this with
one on one. We are all
working together,” she said
of the new structure.
Since the firing of
Green, the county has been
without an administrator
and Commissioner Jim
Doherty has been filling in
doing some of his duties.
In addition, executive as-
sistant Roberta Lutcher,
who worked directly below
Green, is now on 30 days
leave. Doherty said Mon-
day former county execu-
tive assistant Karen Wolff
has been hired on a 30-day
temporary contract to fill in
during Lutcher’s absence.
If commissioners adopt
the new system of disbursed
governance, it could be
changed as soon as two new
commissioners take posi-
tions on the board in Jan-
uary. Commissioners said,
however, that their imple-
menting the new structure
would give county employ-
ees “an opportunity to live
it for a while and then hand
over the experience to the
new board.”
Tentative break down
188 W. Willow
P.O. Box 337
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of which commissioners
would be liaisons with
which departments is as
follows: Jim Doherty
– Health Dept., Human
Resources, Admin Dept.,
Transportation, Treasurer,
Planning and District At-
torney. Melissa Lindsay
– Juvenile Dept., Emergen-
cy Management, Sheriff’s
Office, Veterans Affairs,
Fair and Rodeo, Roads,
Justice Court, Circuit Court
and Surveyor. Don Russell
– Finance, Clerk Office,
Assessor, Community De-
velopment, Weeds, Public
Works airport, parks, main-
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and IT services.
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