Clarion County commissioners on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Randall Stahlman, the county’s public safety director.
Stahlman, who has been employed by Clarion County since 2004, is retiring, effective Nov. 30.
“Any time you lose someone who has done a job like this for that length of time they will be missed,” Commissioner Ted Tharan said.
The county will seek a replacement for Stahlman. The county pays one-half of the salary with the balance paid by the state Emergency Management Agency fund.
In other business at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, Commissioner Wayne Brosius said the county just received a request for aid from the severe July flooding.
The county is compiling requests for aid from various municipalities and, based on the amount available, will provide some aid from the Marcellus Shale legacy fund.
The county hasn’t received the state police fire marshal’s report on the blaze that damaged the county probation office and the office of District Judge Duane Quinn at North Sixth Street in Clarion.
In another matter, the official election next month of Sara Seidle-Patton as Clarion County judge has created the need to realign several of the county’s contracts. Seidle-Patton’s firm had represented the county in several areas.
Three contracts currently with Seidle PC – juvenile defender, Children and Youth Services and assistant county solicitor – will shift to the new Logue and Urik PC firm effective Nov. 1.
Logue, who will continue as assistant county solicitor, said Seidle-Patton isn’t taking on any new clients and wants to wrap things up by Dec. 6.
Anything remaining will be transferred to the Logue and Urik firm, which is opening next month on Liberty Street in Clarion.