Extension district decision delayed
Thursday, December 22, 2011
After moving and seconding a decision to approve an agreement allowing the Lyon County Extension and Research agency to combine with the Frontier Extension District, Lyon County commissioners tabled the decision until Jan. 5.
Joining the Frontier District would allow the two agencies to combine services and would give them taxing authority.
After an hour-long public hearing, commissioners were set to vote on the resolution when County Attorney Marc Goodman called a legal executive session to discuss the issue. When commissioners reconvened, they announced that they would table the motion.
Commissioner Rollie Martin, who made the original motion to approve the resolution, made the motion to table the decision.
"Given the commissioners authorized a waiver of their privilege, counsel has determined that there is an inconsistency in the resolution, and advised and counseled the commission to table this for two weeks," Goodman said.
In approving a resolution, Martin explained, the commission is in effect "agreeing with the agreement."
"We have not seen the agreement between the Frontier District and Lyon County Extension," he said. "In order to be thorough and transparent, we advise the board of Lyon County Extension and the Frontier board to put together their operational agreement so that could be reviewed by commission and counsel."
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traceygraham (Tracey Graham) says...
Your poll's wording is misleading and confusing. On option #2, just who is the "we"? The _people_ of Lyon County would have no less control with a district than they currently have with a county office. In fact, they'd have more. If the Gazette would take the time to actually understand the issue, you wouldn;t word the responses to the question in such a misleading and biased fashion.
December 22, 2011 at 9:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Steve_Corbin (anonymous) says...
Relax Tracey,
You'll get this deal done. Our county commission has never met a spending increase they didn't like.
December 23, 2011 at 6:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )