A work session, presumably to apply recommendations by the evenly divided twelve comments from the August 1 hearing, will be held this evening at the Owen Bldg beginning at 6PM. A second and final hearing is schedule for August 15, also at the Owen Bldg.

Now that a proposed county charter is more likely than not to be put before the voters in November placing a competing ordinance may or may not be prudent at this time. Taken individually, either one would pass or fail on its own but by effectively pitting one against the other, we may be more likely to see a change this fall, like it or not.