Reduce supervisors from five to three

From Lois Monday

Creston

It was just brought to my attention that the people of Union County are concerned about reducing the supervisors from 5 to 3, because we could have the same mess with someone’s total control like we have now.

Well, Supervisor Michael J. King does not own that board room or any part of Union County. He works for the people who pay the salaries for the minor work the supervisors do.

I got a list of their committees for 2010, and what a joke those are. They are just put together to make it look like a full work load, and when you put a person on the committee with a alternate that means he put two people on the same board so if the appointed one can’t go to the meetings, the alternate one takes over.

Well, I got the list of King’s committees for 2010 and the people he appointed to them, and I find out one has not had one of these appointed attend one of their meeting in the last eight years or more, and another one meets maybe four times a year for 1 and 1/2 hours each time.

But do they attend and do they have someone in charge of each of these meeting for proof of attendance? Yet another I find out meets one time every other month. That is a possible six times a year for 45 minutes to an hour.

If you want to check on this some more you go get the committee sheets set up for 2010 at the auditor’s office. You spend the time checking out some more of this white-washed political fiasco and goings on to make the supervisors look like they are totally exhausted from work beside their one partial day each month in the board room and part of that time is in closed session due to litigation or insurance nonsense.

If we succeed and get supervisors down from 5 to 3, it will save more or less one hundred thousand dollars to be used to help free up the debt load.