Bill, Julie, Mike, Tom:
Can any or all of you provide me with an in-depth rationale for reducing the size of the County Board? All I am getting from press reports are the repeated cliches and sound bites about "unwieldy," "too expensive," and a host of other shibboleths that may or may not be true but are preached as if they are Gospel.
Do any of you have any real evidence that smaller boards across the state do a substantially better job of governing their counties? Waukesha County I believe has about 19 supervisors, yet that county is a real estate developer's urban sprawl paradise, and Kimme worked his magic there in the same way he did in Winnebago. The Oshkosh Common Council has only 7 members, and 5 of them were able to decide on a 100 block development with NO public comment. By your logic, I guess the failure to ask the public for input was the result of the size of the Council.
I am open to being persuaded that a smaller board is better, but I'm not going to be persuaded by platitudes.
If any of you have a rationale that I could put on the web site I would much appreciate it.
Happy Easter.