Rumors, a missed meeting and mixed feelings contributed to a tense atmosphere at last Tuesday’s Board of Commissioners’ meeting.
The Tuesday, August 2, meeting saw the board receiving a presentation from Jerry Johnson, the regional director of the Michigan State University Extension, who highlighted the promotion of the secretary Mary Heiden to the role of 4-H coordinator– as well as his frustration that, now with a vacant position to fill at the Sandusky office, the board did not approve a request to fill it.
He also touched on rumors he alleges were made by a commissioner, noting that he is not planning on retiring in August, as one of the rumors purported.
Commissioner Joel Wyatt responded that Johnson had missed the committee meeting wherein Wyatt and his fellow personnel committee members made the decision, with Johnson saying that he was not notified of the 11:00 a.m. meeting. Following an tense exchange, Johnson appealed to board chairman, Commissioner Jon Block, for further discussion and another meeting with the personnel committee. Block agreed to continue the discussion later, adding that they’d do so in a “professional manner.”
In other commissioner news, the board approved a request by the Sanilac County Medical Care Facility to put a millage renewal on the fall ballot, with administrator Ruth McAlpine presenting the two-tenths of a mil proposal. The mill would raise almost $340,000 in the first year.
