OREGON CAPITAL INSIDER - Carpet in the Oregon governor's ceremonial office in the state Capitol in Salem

• Brian Henson is acting director of the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training “for the time being,” according to the Governor’s Office. Jerry Granderson, whom Gov. Kate Brown appointed as director a year ago, was placed on paid administrative leave on Friday, April 15. He submitted his resignation letter the next day, effective April 17.
• A politically influential public employees union has a new executive director. The Oregon Education Association describes Tracey-Ann Nelson as “a veteran labor advocate and political strategist.” Nelson previously was executive director of the Arkansas Education Association.
• When the Land Conservation and Development Commission meets May 19-20, it will be the last meeting for chair Robin McArthur and the first for Brenda Ortigoza Bateman, who becomes department director on May 2. The commission chose Bateman to succeed Jim Rue, who served as director for a record 11 years.
• ODOT’s Mac Lynde has been named administrator of the Delivery and Operations Division — what used to be known as the Highway Division. Lynde, the division’s deputy administrator, had been serving as interim. In 2020, he was chosen to lead the state’s Wildfire Debris Management Task Force, helping Oregonians clean up and rebuild from the devastating Labor Day fires.
• Zane Potter is leaving the Legislative Fiscal Office at the end of the month. His fiscal areas included the departments of Land Conservation and Development, State Lands and Revenue, as well as the Land Use Board of Appeals, Columbia River Gorge Commission, Government Ethics Commission and Board of Nursing. LFO is recruiting senior analysts for that position and for the unfilled vacancy created when John Terpening was promoted to principal analyst last fall.