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Barton finds MGx amusing

Jon Barton, who along with Lance Benton attempted to manipulate election data to represent a higher percentage of voters wanted a governance change than is factually correct is firing back in another letter to the editor today.

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Administrator off the table but finance director, maybe

Most of the discussion centered around how the county budget is structured and that it is considered difficult to understand and that the county should consider adopting a cost accounting system. As an old cost accountant I can see the merits of employing this type of system to track department progress and establishing the mechanisms necessary shouldn’t be that hard to implement.

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Governance ordinance may enable illegal deliberations

Considering the administrator is granted broad authority it is unclear why individual discussions with the commissioners outside of public meetings would be necessary and the obvious concern is that the administrator is working the board and decisions are determined before the meeting in violation of public meetings law.

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Coos County applicant interviews today at the Owen Building

The panel consists of people who never attend regular BOC meetings so it will be interesting to see what types of questions they come up with based on whatever their experience in county government may be. The applicants being interviewed never attend the meetings either, for that matter, so it may be safe to say the inexperience of the panel may well suit the inexperience of the applicants.

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