County Commission Update

Hi Folks,

We held last week’s meeting at Bordon’s in Whitehall. We approved the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan for Jefferson County. DES Coordinator, Doug Dodge has done a lot of work on this and has involved folks from all over the County.

We held the final Public Hearing before we decide whether to put the creation of the Ambulance District on the ballot later this year. If we do decide to go forward, Clerk and recorder, Bonnie Ramey will open a 145 day filing period for folks who may want to run for the Trustee positions for the District. Bonnie sent out 1,875 protest forms to the taxpayers of the proposed district. A form was sent out to every parcel that could potentially have the fee placed on it. As proposed, only those properties with a residential structure or commercial business would have the fee. However the law uses the word “potentially”, so each individual parcel needed to receive a form. 344 of those forms were returned; 220 were in opposition to the district; 95 returned forms were in support of the district, and 29 that were in opposition didn’t include the required information to identify their property. We will make a decision on whether to proceed at our regular meeting on May 30th.

FYI: “If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.” Will Rogers