The Charter Review Commission process was disappointing, for the most part, in that good productive propositions that could have benefitted our county community into the future did not come to fruition. The charter review period would have been a great opportunity for us to fulfill our mandate to “review” how well the charter is working, but we arrived at propositions that have no substantive effect that could improve, but could potentially worsen the economic and living conditions of our neighbors, friends and inhabitants of SJC.
However, the CRC did make some effective recommendations for which we acknowledge the quality and support the work on “Tourism management plan, enhanced election observations, online records transparency, clarification of administrative departments under the county manager, clarifying the budget responsibility of the county auditor and easier online budget access” and more. We feel that these are properly in the realm of recommendations.
Along the way we seem to have lost what the CRC purpose and task are. And finally, we do thank the San Juan County Council for calling the CRC in action as required by the charter and we hope that future CRCs will be as energetic and committed as the current 18 colleagues.
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