Comments on: Government Consolidation Commission Holds First Meeting; Elects Officers

By: Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:10:01 +0000

Original post by Dmitri Gromov

By: wanderinghoo

wanderinghoo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:40:10 +0000

Jay,

The enabling legislation was written for the Chief Judge to appoint two members who are members of the Florida Bar and have expertise in local government matters. If you figure that the three “legislative” bodies get a total of eight appointments (5 county, 2 city, 1 town) and each of the constitutional officers gets one for a total of 5 then it only seems reasonable that there be more than one named from the judical branch.

Both of those positions were filled prior to the organizational meeting yesterday.

By: William

William — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:17:35 +0000

Updated @ 1:15 pm with final two appointees (bottom of list)

By: W.R.

W.R. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:02:36 +0000

Well get ready all of Escambia citizens. With all these fat cats needig their pockets lined you might as well get rady to shell out big time!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is as done deal looks to me like. Too much influnce from the likes of these and our simple minded citizens will not even know what hit us.

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:02:31 +0000

Well since this is EAFO’s grand idea, then they need to support it all by them selve’s . Not one penny should come from the county or any other source. LEARN TO ANNEX LIKE MOBILE AND VOTE NO TO CONSOLIDATION.

By: concerned2

concerned2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:02:40 +0000

25 people in a room are going to come up with an agreement? When 7 of them are lawyers? Boy they are going to be looking out for the north end.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:00:25 +0000

I see the good chief judge gets two appointments, why is that? One of the selections is Janet Lander who was asked to depart the county commission after the Touart scandal. I’m not sure that she’ll have the best interest of the county where the majority of the people live in this effort.
And what about the two non-appointed positions at the bottom of the list, isn’t there anyone in those organizations worthy of appointment?