County goes full on Halloween
the county is having some Halloween fun. There will be prizes for best decorated office and best costumes. Scroll above to see some pics from Elections and Planning.
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Jill Rolfe tapped to be planning director
Acting Coos County planning director, Jill Rolfe, was chosen by the selection committee to head the department. Rolfe has been interim director since last summer when Patty Evernden retired and was one of four finalists considered for the decision.
Read MoreBay Area Chamber believes bias is important planning director qualification
Let the commission know that citizens believe competence is the number one criteria and we expect a planning director who will administer the county land use ordinances impartially and without regard to ideology or political influences.
Bob Main
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.
Read MoreMesserle, forgetful or a liar?
This could qualify as preferential treatment and by intruding on the matter, Parry cost planning $3,220.75 which should have been paid by the Cole’s but was instead billed to the general fund.
Read MoreJeers to The World for missing the point, as usual
Thankfully, it is up to OGEC (Oregon Government Ethics Commission), not the paper’s editorial baord, to determine whether Messerle’s conduct was unethical or not.
Read MoreMesserle fee blunder total $31.5K, board restores planning fees to $75/hr
Messerle acknowledged he had a conflict today by stating he would refund the department for his fee reduction in the form of a donation. For those who have filed ethics complaints this should add some fuel to the fire.
Read MoreEx post facto planning fee reductions???
this more like having too many margaritas and getting stopped for a DUI then enacting an ex post facto law to say intoxication by tequila is exempted?
Read MorePlanning billed for and was reimbursed $20,760 from general fund
The invoice bills for 1,384 hours for “Reduced hourly rate at the request of the Board. The diffrence should be made up out of the general fund”. Where the $5,000 figure comes from is a mystery.
Read MoreWe should call them the “ramrod” commissioners
The first meeting at the The Mill Casino follows the weekly chamber luncheon and the timing will prohibit most citizens from attending. The same is true of the second meeting in Coquille held at 9:00 AM. Most of the county’s citizens will not be able to attend.
Read MoreMesserle planning fee reduction costs the taxpayer $20,760
Is Messerle daft? That’s what budgets are for, to establish need and associated staffing levels and fee structures to cover those costs. Messerle has been caught napping before, was he sleeping during the budget hearings?
Read MoreMesserle reduced planning fees, may cost general fund $20K
one of the first things Fred Messerle did after being appointed interim Coos County commissioner was to unilaterally instruct the planning department, one of his liaison assignments, to lower its fees. The fee adjustments jeopardized the department’s self supporting status and were contrary to the approved budget so planning director Parry Evernden has invoiced the county for reimbursement
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