PRINEVILLE, OR -- The Crook County Court will conduct interviews the week of December 4th for candidates applying for commissioner. Judge Seth Crawford and Commissioner Brian Barney need to appoint a replacement for Jerry Brummer who stepped down a few weeks ago. County Administrator Andy Parks told them at Wednesday’s meeting, they should aim for December 20th, “Recognize too, that by your process and your code that this appointment is set up to occur within 90 days of the vacancy that as I count is January 2nd. So, if we don't do it, by the 20th, we would need to schedule a special meeting to occur if you guys wanted to make an appointment.” Three people have applied for the position.
“We still have through November 9th. So, there's still a fair amount of time left for folks to, you know, come in. It'd be helpful to develop interview questions sooner rather than later,” Parks told the pair they can look over a list of established interview questions, many from when Brummer was appointed seven years ago, “If there's others that you would like to see, or have any of those stricken, if you could get back to us on that, we can at least get a draft together and bring those back at, say the next meeting for you two in a review and you know, make whatever changes you need to make at that time.”
The three people that have applied to be interviewed as of Wednesday are Planning Commission member Susan Hermreck, marketing consultant Bryan Iverson and Powell Butte business owner Monty Kurtz. Planning Commission member Brian Samp has filed to run in the May primary.
