Recently-hired EMS director Dave Owen will not be coming to Marion County after all.
“I was very disappointed,” Marion County Commission chairman Dianne Novak said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I announced it about 1½ weeks ago, he accepted. Then he called me to say he would not be taking the position.”
Morris County had made him an offer he couldn’t resist, she said.
“He received a salary increase and all changes he wanted were given to him,” Novak said.
Commissioners will go through applications and interview top candidates again.
Owen did not return a call for comment.
(Read more: HILLSBORO Star-Journal)