City commissioners know what the Brunswick-Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission is asking to be allowed to do, so what's the hold up? Why the foot-dragging?
There's really not much to discuss, something commissioners say they haven't been able to do. Either the City Commission agrees with expanding the utility board to seven members, with one less city commissioner and one less county commissioner, or it doesn't. Yes or no. It is as simple as that.
Yet city commissioners, lamenting that they've had a tough week, with the arrest and continued incarceration of Commissioner James Brooks and all, say they haven't had much time to talk about the change.
Because they haven't, they deferred talking about it during their regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday at Old City Hall.
Surely each commissioner has an opinion on enlarging the board from five to seven members and surely none of the four is too embarrassed to tell the others how he feels. At the very least, someone on the commission could ask for a quick vote and be done with the issue.
They would have been that much ahead of the game had they done that. They would have been ready to vote on the issue when the formal resolution, approved Thursday by the utility board, was presented to them.
This expansion is not something that just suddenly popped up overnight. It's been kicked around for some time now, when the city was represented by two commissioners on the board of the utility. Certainly the commission understands the proposal.
Hopefully, the commission is not waiting for Brooks to be released from jail before discussing the amendment, for time is of the essence. If change is to take place in the near future, this year, it must be approved by the Georgia General Assembly during the current session. That way, it can be voted on by the general public in one of the upcoming elections, without the need for a special election and the additional cost it would incur.
Thumbs up or thumbs down - decide and soon.
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A man that has been arrested 33 times and 18 time since 1991 should be a red flag to all.....As Mama always said, something is rotten in Denmark.....Term Limits for all in office.....That's the ticket that will cure those that corrupt....Goodbye Brooks!
Smiley
2/3/2012