Includes, the conclusion of Sportsmans Park handover. Also, keeping Legal Counsel Hicks busy with drafting ordinances for regulating psilocybin (after next week’s “deep dive” from public health director Weber), and ballot measures for funding mechanism(s) for the Sheriff: local sales tax, a levy, or a district. Commissioners report June 7 and 8
This week Commissioners Dan DeYoung and Herman Baertschiger were channeling Fox News during their encounter with SOREDI’s Colleen Padilla, invited by Commissioner Darin Fowler to give a report who didn’t bother to show up to hear it. Their pessimistic take on Josephine County’s business climate will probably not win them many friends in the Chamber […]
Short meetings and a wildfire discussion between KMED’s Bill Meyer and Josephine County Commissioner Herman Baertschiger that would make a climate scientist weep were the gist of our elected officials’ duties the last two weeks. During their meetings Commissioners heard from the District Forester regarding wildfire readiness, finalized RV sites for Whitehorse Park, shuffled money […]
Commissioners’ salaries, one of the issues that sparked a recall, were discussed during budget hearings this week and Commissioners Fowler and Baertschiger declared war on the Grants Pass Daily Courier after it ran a critical editorial about them. DeYoung was absent from the Wednesday meetings which shorted both the Weekly Business Session and Administrative Workshop […]
This past week Josephine County Commission Chair Herman Baertschiger was so worried about what the Grants Pass Daily Courier might say about him he was willing to cut transit services for the elderly and disabled. He also decided commission seats are non-partisan after arguing last month that they are inherently partisan. Baertschiger said because the […]
Two weeks this time because I was off with family during Spring Break so it took me a bit to get caught up. The Whitehorse Park hearing was interesting. Commissioners paid little more than lip service to people with concerns about that matter while they totally embraced the pro-transfer bunch that showed up for the […]
The week of April 11-13 started with a land use hearing and ended with Josephine County Commissioners’ usual politicking from their seats at the dais. Regarding the Bill and Herman Show on Tuesday, it seemed that Josephine County Commissioner Herman Baertschiger wanted to put off talking about the Sportsman Park public hearing because so many […]
This is coming up again at tomorrow’s Business Session. Will be at 5:00 PM at Anne Basker. Need to keep pressure on to not transfer/convey/give away Sportsman’s Park April 4 5 Commissioners Report
