This Tuesday the structure advisory committee, already embroiled in a great deal of controversy, will try to give a formal presentation of its “findings and conclusions” despite doubt cast by dissenting members of its own ranks. The presentation will be during a normal commission meeting but this one will be held at the Owen Building to accommodate an anticipated larger crowd.
Last summer, by a unamimous vote of the Coos County Commission, a citizen advisory committee was formed to find
ways to streamline county services. The seven member committee produced a majority and minority report with the
former proposing a centralized management style and the hiring of a county chief executive.
The majority report was delivered to the commission on Jan 17 amidst public protest due to the lack of proper notice.
Despite claims by co-chairs that the conclusions presented January 17 were the consensus of the committee on January 31, Sheriff Zanni presented the dissenting view of 3 of 7 members.
The minority report does not recommend hiring an executive and indicates that the majority have not identified
how to pay for an executive or how doing so will save the county money.
Watch the video for highlights from previous advisory committee appearances.
Little Al did his job well. Applied for and Lo and Behold ! He pockets anywhere from ten thousand to twenty thousand dollars of YOUR money to purdy up his Harley Shop. Why? Because he ran point man for SCDC and the Chamber of Consorts.
The public funding of The Chamber of Consorts has to stop now ! We the taxpayers already put their sorry selfish arses in a brand new million and a half building. And what part did THAT play in our economic development.
When are enough citizens going to demand it stop? These “economic developers” do nothing, not one damn thing to help our schools, our roads, our unemployed. They are the worst form of public welfare, it’s selfishness indeed. Their every Wednesday mutual circle jerk allows them to fawn upon one another and tell one another they are actually helping. BS. They help themselves. Strip them from local funding, we can no longer afford them.
My money is on the motorcycle salesman
I can’t wait to see who the commissioners afford the most credibility to, an elected sheriff or an appointed motorcycle salesman.
Thank you Robert Bob Main for our wonderful appointed commissioners. Thanks for your wonderful slected committees. The majorityof the structure committee certainly was not listening when they reecived direction from the board. I should have watched the video before commenting earlier. Charlie sits there apparently picking buggers, or maybe its a nervous twitch. Jollity Jon once again demonstrates that he is suffering from constipation of the brain. Please, some planned meeting attendee take each Barton sentence and rebut.
Charlie Pettit’s suggestions are without support and without merit. Barton is just being Barton. Pettit and Barton sould be told thanks and good bye. Don’t call us, we may call you. A county charter change is required. Employees will have three masters – county commissioners, county manager and department heads. Coos Bay is the best example why we don’t want a county manager. Eight permanent and temporary managers(one was both permanent and temporary) (one was temporary twice) in the past eight years. Three including county committee member Bill Grile were fired. Two sued the city. None of the permanent got along with the council. All had problems with county employees. Tens of thousands of dollars spent to recruit each time. All had at least a secretary as staff.
I hope every Occupyer outthere will attend, and every citizens who pays taxes attends, and every voter watching will understand these men are going full stream ahead to destry this current government. I hope all county city and state employees attend, so they can ask Fred and Jon and Little Al, why they think the people out here should have no say. These men have been the economic drivers of this county, and they’ve driven it over the cliff, now they want permission to sell the bones.
We need to tell them we aren’t stupid any more. We’d be stupid to ignore what these anti-tax activists want, your jobs, your government and services. If we don’t stand up to them, there won’t be a government. Please think for yourself, and ask what Jon Barton has done but eat, to further development. They are pigs at OUR trough, and they don’t think we have any right to our own food.
Raise hell with them, they have no shame at attempting a coup do they? What kind of idiots would we be if we didn’t stop them?
Bob Main has 27 or 37 pieces of property in Coos County.
Messerles own how much, I don’t know.
You think these selfish capitalists want to raise taxes for schools? Hell no.
Let’s take Jon Bartons’ Permanent Teat from him, every one of them.
I’m out of town, but I’d go.
THESE CLOWNS WORK FOR YOU !!!! But they don’t want you to know what they’re doing. Fire all employees that behave that way, and hire people willing to work to brinig Coos Co back.