Ottawa County - Any of You Dudes Living with the Train Wreak of a County Commission?

Turtleneck wrote:If you don't like the rules, you don't have to follow them and you can lie if anybody questions you.

Co-Signed,

Donald Trump and Jim Harbaugh

Motown Spartan wrote:It’ll all unravel when they try to ban dancing.  

Motown Spartan wrote:It’ll all unravel when they try to ban dancing.

Trapper Gus wrote:

Motown Spartan wrote:It’ll all unravel when they try to ban dancing.

Come on Man, this is what you meant! /s

Turtleneck wrote:Ottawa County becomes ‘constitutional county’

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/05/ottawa-county-becomes-constitutional-county.html

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Ottawa County becomes ‘constitutional county’

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/05/ottawa-county-becomes-constitutional-county.html

Time to cut any state funding that goes towards policing the county?

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Ottawa County becomes ‘constitutional county’

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/05/ottawa-county-becomes-constitutional-county.html

Time to cut any state funding that goes towards policing the county?

Motown Spartan wrote:Let’s all go be gay in Grand Haven.

A political showdown in Michigan's Ottawa County has moved into the national spotlight, after the county’s deeply conservative political leaders instructed the public health officer to cut the county’s contribution to her office’s budget in half.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Amid a lawsuit alleging he discriminated against a prospective employee, Ottawa County Administrator John Gibbs wants to give his office more control over the hiring process and have the final say on who is hired by the county.

Those unilateral hiring decisions are “to be used only for certain strategic positions or leadership positions,” according to a memo from Gibbs to the county board on the proposed changes.

The proposed policy, however, does not enshrine that restriction.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — After all four current veterans affairs staff members for Ottawa County announced their resignation, county officials say more than 30 people have applied to become the new director of veterans affairs.

Currently, veterans services are provided to Ottawa County residents through contracted staff, as has been the case since 2011. But during the budget process for fiscal year 2024, County Administrator John Gibbs added in funding for a new director of veterans affairs and “additional funding for creating of (a) department.”

In 2023, the county spent just over $64,000 for veterans affairs. In the 2024 budget, which took effect on Oct. 1, the new veterans affairs department has a budget of $288,498, an increase of 350% from the year before. That budget includes a director of veterans affairs with a job salary range of $81,184.90 to $105,526.51 annually.

GRR Spartan wrote:County Administrator John Gibbs apparently was lost in the intricacies of administrating Ottawa County so in August he hired 23 year old Jordan Epperson who was a legislative aide to Rep Neil Friske (R) from Charleroix. Epperson also has connections with former GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddockand Joel Studebaker who is chief of staff for current GOP Chair Kristine Karamo.

Epperson was hired without any job posting. Gibbs /Ottawa county Board approved to raise annual salary for the position from $54,101 to $81,538 annually

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/politics/county/2023/09/08/heavily-redacted-emails-suggest-ottawa-aides-hire-was-contested/70788348007/


https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/report-ottawa-co-hires-executive-aide-with-far-right-links/

DWags wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:County Administrator John Gibbs apparently was lost in the intricacies of administrating Ottawa County  so in August he hired 23 year old Jordan Epperson who was a legislative aide to Rep Neil Friske (R) from Charleroix.    Epperson also has connections with former GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddockand Joel Studebaker who is chief of staff for current GOP Chair Kristine Karamo.

Epperson was hired without any job posting.  Gibbs /Ottawa county Board approved to raise  annual salary for the position from $54,101 to $81,538 annually

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/politics/county/2023/09/08/heavily-redacted-emails-suggest-ottawa-aides-hire-was-contested/70788348007/


https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/report-ottawa-co-hires-executive-aide-with-far-right-links/

Honestly, these fuckers are gonna take over school boards and local towns and communities in our country will be even more fucked

Trapper Gus wrote:https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/02/ottawa-county-health-officer-will-keep-job-under-tenative-settlement.html

Have the powers of darkness been beaten back this one time?

GRR Spartan wrote:WOTS is new MI GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra and/or one of his party aides had a sit down with County Council Chair Joe Moss, the leader of Ottawa impact and told him to stop the shit, including letting no experience County Executive Gibbs make deals like $4M to the county health official so she’d walk away.

MI Democrats were given a gift by pointing out what happens when right wing Trump supporters take over like they did Ottawa County since January ‘24 when Ottawa Impact arrived.

Don’t think is a coincidence that Ottawa Impact board of commissioners reinstated the same person they were willing to pay $4M to go away less than 60 days ago at the same time measles is re-emerging in MI and blowing up in FL.

Toss in the GOP stepping in it with the IVF fiasco and at least in MI they’ve given campaigning Democrats a gift.  Like the late House Speaker Tip O’Neil said, “All politics are local”.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — In a meeting in which Ottawa County Administrator John Gibbs was not present, the county board voted to fire him from the top county role.

The county commissioners fired him with cause Thursday night, Feb. 29. It was nearly a unanimous vote with the lone Democrat voting against the motion that ends Gibbs’ 14-month run as county administrator.

Patrick McCarty, a Park Township resident who took the poll, told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press that his trust in Ottawa Impact is zero and that it’s “total chaos.”

“All I know, people in this township are like mushrooms,” McCarty said. “I feel like they’re kept in the dark and fed B.S. It’s time for all the B.S. at the county level to quit.”

Ron Wilson, a strong Republican who may vote for an Ottawa Impact candidate this year, told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press that he thinks some of the group’s ideas are laudable, but he strongly disagrees with how they’ve approached governance.

“The problem comes in that the idiots, the morons, that got elected immediately abandoned their premise of working with others and just started arbitrarily enacting rules, firing people, just making different statements, different actions that were not in keeping with the best interests” of the county’s residents, he said.