Former planning director resigns

by DAVID COLE/Staff writer
| January 4, 2014 8:00 PM

COEUR d'ALENE - Scott Clark, who led Kootenai County's community development department until being re-assigned in August to a lower position, has now resigned.

Kootenai County Commissioners Dan Green and Todd Tondee on Friday afternoon confirmed Clark's decision. Clark couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

In August, Clark was demoted to a "long-range planner" position and his pay was cut from what he had been earning as director of the community development department.

Clark was hired as the planning director in April 2007. The Press reported at the time that Clark faced complaints about customer service and project delays when he was the planning director in Grant County, Wash.

The Press also reported that Clark wasn't Grant County's planning director when he was hired by Kootenai County.

Clark's title in Grant County had changed from director to senior planner in March 2007. He had been planning director in Grant County for six years.

After Clark was re-assigned in Kootenai County, Tondee served as interim community development director until David Callahan was hired in late October. Callahan assumed the director post in early November.

Callahan had been working in a similar position for the city of Fort Morgan, Colo.