PORT ANGELES — A Kansas candidate for Clallam County’s top staff position could come to town with another job offer already in his pocket.
Edward Williams, whom the PDN last week learned was fired from his previous post, has an invitation to be county administrator in Effingham County, Ga.
The Savannah Morning News published on Friday an article about Williams and the Georgia job that was offered to him April 12.
Because Georgia laws require a 14-day public notice before he can be hired, Effingham County can’t hire him until May 3.
That would be six days after he has an interview in Clallam County.
On Thursday, he will be one of three applicants for the job held by Dan Engelbertson, who will retire as county administrator June 30.
Clallam County Human Resources Director Marjorie Upham said Monday she hadn’t heard from Williams that he won’t attend Thursday’s interview.
Other candidates
The other candidates are James Jones, business and operations director for Port Angeles schools, and Richard Nelson, city administrator of North Ogden, Utah.
Williams told reporter Edward Fulford at the Savannah newspaper that the rolling Georgia countryside would be welcome after six years in Kansas.
“Georgia is certainly a huge change for me as for as environment is concerned, and I really look forward to that,” he said.
