Sarasota County Commissioners have said that they will stand behind the term limits that voters put in place in 1998…
John Thaxton, often quoted by the newspapers, suggested that the term limits would eliminate the experience gained by a sitting Commissioners, and would leave the voters at the mercy of unelected staffers…
My question is: and this would be different, how?
The Country Commissioners’ recently got rid of the Country Administrator, Jim Ley, after the blowup over the Country Purchasing Department… Mr. Ley had been the Administrator for about 14 years.. Several of our Commissioners had been busy building up their experience during that time but, they obviously had not build up enough experience to know that the Mr. Ley had been blowing them off the whole time.. In spite of several complaints, from various contractors, about problems with the Purchasing Department which they handed off to Mr. Ley who did nothing…
So.. Where did those years of experience get US? Nowhere.
Which brings me back to a question I asked in one of my earlier articles, “what do they do?”.
That Joe Guy 