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Spot On Response To The New Board Electoral Mandate And Empowering The Community Members

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The absolute best meeting that I have seen in years. Commissioner Kruse your changes in agenda, meeting procedure, and citizen comments prove that citizens opinions are valued. We would like to see the same emphasis put on written comments attached to the agenda. We would like to see those citizen comments attached to the link for citizen comments on the agenda instead of being mixed with other updated items. We would like to see items citizens suggest for future agenda actually added at some point to an agenda or workshop for discussion. Today's video had issues and was not posted on the agenda for easier public viewing (it was on a different link?) it also did not have the phone number posted at the bottom of the video so viewers did not know that was even an option until after lunch. We do like that you will have a second public comment time at the end of the meetings so that the public can come later in the day.

We do not always feel that our county government is working in the best interest of the citizens in this county. We would like to see an organizational chart added to the county website. We would like workshops on Code Enforcement and storm-water management.

Outstanding comments from Commissioners: Kruse, Siddique, Dr. McCann, and Felts. (Felts- who was right on target with citizens the entire meeting even those not in her district!.) We appreciate the efforts on reverting to the old wetlands text amendment - which if you are reverting to the original text which was approved by the county attorney at that time, why would it need to be reviewed again by a different county attorney? It would not be a waste of tax payer money should we be sued over reverting back to the original text. We appreciate the comments on Strategic Planning- if you want to know how the county is doing you should ask the citizens. I am sure they will tell you what does not work. If there was a way to submit comments on services and interactions with county staff and departments that could actually be pulled up and reviewed by commissioners, staff, and the public, that would be a great place to start. Mostly citizen comments are hidden from public view unless they are attached to the agenda and the citizens are no longer trusting of staff when they ask for our opinion.

Overall, outstanding! We appreciate your efforts and look forward to actually seeing some change!

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