Tuesday evening, Nov. 20th, at 6 pm Mr. Marquis will be tempted by yet another opportunity to present to the Clatsop County Board of County Commissioners the performance measures which were due last winter, on March 8th. In a gesture of goodwill, and to show those who are beginning to doubt his intelligence, he should show that he does, indeed, value the efforts that these commissioners are making in bringing this county into the 21st century in providing their community with a fiscally transparent government. However, is this Tuesday evening the best time to do so?
Of course, it would be juvenile to expect the immediate self gratification of monetary compensation for performing the task that the rest of the departments complied with eight months ago. Even the newly hired department head for the Health department doesn’t expect a raise with his first compliance of expected duties. However, how much can one expect from the man who has put this county through the hell that he has for the last half of a year?
Sadly, it can be expected that if Mr. Marquis does, indeed, present his performance measures to the CCBOCC Tuesday evening it will be with full drama. While he could simply send this addendum to his budget through the County Manager, one can bet when he does finally get around to it he will be sure to have media present, his colluding commissioner will be ready to immediately make a motion to reinstate the stipend, Mr. Marquis might even have two or three people signed up to speak on the matter and will ask that the CCBOCC immediately make a decision. Joe Gamm will stand ready to interpret every raised eyebrow as a sign of drunkenness or vindictive anger.
Mr. Marquis, give the citizens of our community a break. Be a true Rotarian, man. Get your performance based measures done (and if you're going to use a bunch of statistics at least explain how they relate to staff time spent on a case and in front of the third judge) and present them, quietly, with no drama, to the County Manager, so they can be reviewed by the budget committee to see if they do indeed meet the requirements as set forth in the budget guidelines and so they can make their recommendations to the CCBOCC. Don’t grandstand. Don’t be a victim. Don’t encourage your cohort commissioner, Sam Patrick, to further participate in the
unethical behavior of colluding with you.
Sam, if he has colluded with you about when he plans to make a presentation, please recuse yourself.
Do you think either one of them can resist the drama? One can hope, can’t one?
3 comments:
We can expect drama whenever he decides to do it and he will never do it correctly. He is pissed someone spilled the beans! Patrick won't fess up until he's looking at ethics violations. He should have recused himself from all discussion from that June 4th email on. He should really be charged for that.
Point of clarification, the meeting on 11-20 is at 10AM. Just an FYI if anyone wants to attend.
You were right, both of you.
How could Patrick make a recommendation without looking over the material, unless he had already looked over the information ahead of time? Too bad all we have is a hack reporter on a two bit paper that citizens have to rely on for their "news."
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