Clallam County commissioners voiced support Monday for hiring a short-term interim sheriff to give them more time to hire a longer-term replacement for resigning Sheriff Joe Hawe.
“It will take a month or two until we appoint someone for the long term,” said county Commissioner Steve Tharinger, D-Dungeness.
Complicated issues of appointing Hawe’s successor came up during a Monday work session in which the commissioners heard a report from County Administrator Dan Engelbertson that outlined possible procedures.
“It’s going to be around Oct. 1 when the applications coalesce, then it will be about a two-week process of selection,” Engelbertson said.
Hawe, who Aug. 9 announced his resignation to head a statewide Internet mapping program of schools with the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in Olympia, will leave office Oct. 1.
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The rest of the story appears in the Tuesday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
