Push to restructure county governance continues
Commissioners John Sweet and Melissa Cribbins are keen to accomplish at least two things within...
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Expecting different results while repeating the same failures
There was one thing in Jon Barton’s letter to the editor today that most of us can agree with. “What we are doing”, he writes, “isn’t working”. Why then do he and his acolytes persist on...
Read MoreParry’s water mitigation banking
If radio host personality and occasional commissioner Cam Parry is trying to go out with a bang, his effort may have fizzled. Parry, who is prone to superlatives has been all in a lather about the county’s...
Read MoreBOC adopt resolution to accept ORC surface use lease VIDEO
Two commissioners voted to adopt the lease discussed in a hearing last week despite news that the company is halting operations. Cam Parry and Fred Messerle outvoted Bob Main who called for the lease to put on hold until the...
Read MoreProposed lease caves in to ORC requests
One of the major sticking points in the past is that ORC wants to be able to assign or transfer the lease to unnamed entities which this new lease allows*. Of course the company accepts the new lease, it is practically a gift.
Read MoreOne year later, Fred still has no Solid Waste answers
…more than a year, he is still talking about process but has no answers. Messerle hasn’t been a total failure, however, he has managed to “move forward” from grass covered ash pits to this.
Read MoreFred & Cam mock public meetings law
After more than a year in public office these two either still don’t understand public meetings law or they think their audience is stupid. “It is better if we are not listening to the same speech”. Really? Does that mean if they watch the meeting later and listen to the “same speech” they are violating public meetings law? Creating a controversy? As long as they aren’t debating county business or formulating a decision, giving a speech within earshot of another commissioner, with or without public notice is not a violation. Talking shop over lunch, however, is another story…
Read MoreORC says reserves not enough to satisfy investors
I don’t really know if we can convert the customers that we need to to keep us going, if we can go any further at this rate and I don’t know if this funding will preserve those jobs.
Read MoreHallow’s Eve spirits haunt the BOC UPDATED
A tiny band of “spirits” haunted the BOC meeting today in protest of The World newspaper’s characterization that citizens “haunt” the meetings. Video will be available later today. Fred Messerle, Cam Parry and Bob Main were also in costume disguised as commissioners and while Messerle did not look like he enjoyed the spirited public comments, all in all, the trio were good sports and allowed this bit of peaceful political theater to play itself out. More later
Read MoreWalrus admits Messerle is incompetent
Jon Barton a member of CCAP admitted during a recent forum that the current commission which includes Fred Messerle has created a disaster.
Read More“Fred speak” translator needed
Fred Messerle’s answers to questions posed at a chamber of commerce sponsored forum last week are so vague and jumbled as to be almost indecipherable.
Read MoreAnyway you slice it, it is preferential treatment
All the commissioners need to do is release the audio from the executive session to lay any question of impropriety to rest. Today, I dispatched an email to all three commissioners requesting the audio and urge everyone else to do so as well. So far, I haven’t received a reply.
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