County Official Takes Job in Riverside

Ronald W. Komers, who has headed Ventura County government’s personnel department for 14 years, has resigned.

Komers has accepted a position as Riverside County’s assistant county executive for human resources. His last day on the job in Ventura County will be Aug. 5. He starts his new job the next day.

“I’m going for the challenge and opportunity,” Komers said Friday. “It’s a larger county and has many of the same issues we have in Ventura. The Board of Supervisors there basically wants somebody to come in and revitalize their personnel functions.”

Komers issued a resignation letter to Chief Administrative Officer Lin Koester last week.

“It’s a step up professionally for him and a different type of job,” Koester said.

The county will not immediately name a successor. Koester said his office will take the opportunity to analyze the human resource director’s role and look at reorganizing the county’s management structure.

That may or may not include folding the personnel director’s role into the chief administrator’s office, he said.

“Everything is on the table, and we’ll take a real good management look at it,” Koester said.