In 2013, Kenneth Maryboy sat on the San Juan County Commission when he and his fellow commissioners hired Kelly Pehrson as the new county administrator.
Pehrson, a resident of Monticello, served in the position for six years. Earlier this week, he gave 48 hours notice that he was resigning to take a job as the state’s deputy director of agriculture.
“He seemed to be OK back when we hired him,” Maryboy said Tuesday, “but everything got a little too sticky for the past four months now. It sounds like he’s got greener pastures to go to.”
Bruce Adams, the longest-serving and only Republican remaining on the commission, said Pehrson’s service to the county has been “outstanding, excellent, very commendable, all of the above.