Candidate for top county job quits.Byline: Matt Cooper Matt Cooper may refer to:
One of the candidates for Lane County government's top nonelected non·e·lect·ed adj. Having reached an office or an official position without going through the elective process: powerful nonelected bureaucrats. Adj. 1. post said Friday he is dropping out of the race and will quit the county to become a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Tony Bieda, a seven-year Lane County employee and until now a candidate for county administrator, will leave in December to become a director with a university accreditation accreditation, n a process of formal recognition of a school or institution attesting to the required ability and performance in an area of education, training, or practice. organization. Bieda's departure leaves the county board with two outside candidates seeking to replace longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective County Administrator Bill Van Vactor, who plans to resign by the end of the year. The board could fill the post as soon as next week, Commissioner Peter Sorenson said. Bieda, 54, will become director of legislative affairs for the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools, based in Washington, D.C. The organization provides accreditation of private institutions, which allows for the transfer of credits between schools and makes schools eligible for federal aid. Bieda will represent the organization on legislative and regulatory issues and will work with the U.S. Department of Education and state education departments. "The opportunity is once in a lifetime," Bieda said. Bieda had served as Lane County's intergovernmental in·ter·gov·ern·men·tal adj. Being or occurring between two or more governments or divisions of a government. in manager before he was appointed this fall to the newly created post of assistant administrator, the No. 2 position in the administrative hierarchy. Bieda said he was motivated mo·ti·vate tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. mo by the county administrator position "but my ability to accept or turn down the opportunity in Washington, D.C., was on a short time frame. "It was the right opportunity, the right compensation for me, and my family and I just felt I had to take advantage of it," he added. Bieda wouldn't disclose the exact compensation at the new job in the nation's capital, but said it will be comparable to that for the Lane County administrator position, which will pay at least $135,000. A Denver native, Bieda has a son in Phoenix and a daughter in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . As intergovernmental manager, he advocated for the county before the Oregon Legislature and Congress. He was involved in coalitions that passed Oregon public-employee retirement reform legislation in 2003 and the one-year extension of federal timber payments to counties this year. Sorenson recognized Bieda's efforts this year to push state lawmakers for more financial aid for counties, which resulted in an additional $10 million to Lane County, he said. "That's just one example of Tony working on our behalf," Sorenson said. "We had hoped he would be moving into a bigger role as assistant county administrator and we're going to miss that kind of experience and potential." The board is considering two candidates for county administrator: Jon Caime, county administrator for Hart County Hart County is the name of several counties in the United States:
The board will also review whether to fill the assistant position, Sorenson said. |
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