It turns out Ouray City Administrator Justin Perry will be staying in his job a while longer.

In a strange sequence of events, former Montrose Assistant City Manager Robert Joseph signed a contract to become the city’s interim administrator, only to turn around the next day and turn down the job.

That led the Ouray City Council on Friday to agree to keep Perry in his current job for an indeterminate period of time. The unanimous decision came after councilors spent nearly an hour in an executive...