The Next Meeting for the Board of Supervisors...

Is this Tuesday, July 21st at 7:00 p.m. As always we plan to attend and get some of this on video...but we encourage you to try and attend....get a group together and come. The more people that attend, the more that issues will be better understood, and the word about our county governing processes can be spread to the citizens. The most difficult battle that is faced is not that of any particular supervisor, or a particular issue...it is that of apathy of the citizens...if the citizens don't care about what happens in their own government, then it's more than an uphill battle.

Indeed, our supervisors need to realize that they are "public servants" and they are not placed in our government simply to satisfy their own agendas - but the citizenry must step up to the plate as well, to oversee and monitor their own government....

Our taxes are set to go up, to 13 or 14 cents on the dollar in just a couple of years...and it's a done deal....there was little argument - at least in relationship to the citizen popluation...and, basically, in my eyes, the Four Block did what they wanted anyway, which was to put a bandaid on the problem, for now, and let it hit a couple of years down the road, costing the public about 4.9 million to refinance bonds....yes, folks, the refinance Cost the county citizens that much...on top of what was already owed.

Do the citizens have a voice in this government - I can tell you that some of them do not. There seems to be too much rivalry between board members and it allows little room for true compromise and working together for the good of all the people.

Again, please try to make the meetings on the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm in the Edwin Shields Courthouse. Tell everyone you know...tell the public to start attending these meetings and voice their opinions to their Supervisor.