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Tag: Nikki Whitty

Chairman Messerle’s new rule

Fred Messerle had it all handed to him. When County Commissioner Nikki Whitty died, Commissioner Bob Main appointed Messerle to take Whitty’s place on the Board. That was splendidly efficient, since Messerle didn’t have to trouble himself with getting elected. There was no scrambling to get votes, no speeches, no campaign expenses, no long wait to get the election results. It was all so very pleasantly efficient.

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Commissioners’ behavior unacceptable

Perhaps Main, now completing his third year, might recall that Randy Sanne started appearing at commissioner meetings a full three years ago when Nikki and Kevin were still up there. At that point running for the position of commissioner had not yet entered his head. He just knew that numerous issues needed to be addressed and not enough people were doing it.

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If the port and county were really run like a business…

The tribe has graciously offered to speak with me about this and only my schedule as prevented this so far but on the face of the information to date it is difficult to see how the proposal differs from the existing structure with the BLM. So my primary question is have the county commissioners conducted themselves like a corporate CEO should and done proper due diligence to vet this project before committing the county to a memorandum of understanding with the tribe?

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Nine member selection committee to choose Coos County commissioner

Commissioners Main and Parry resolved today to each pick four and jointly pick one for a total of nine citizens to sit on a selection committee to review candidates to replace the late Nikki Whitty. The committee will choose up to seven of the applications for an interview process consisting of nine to ten questions, similar to how Commissioner Parry was appointed to replace the late Andy Jackson.

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