LC Commissioners Fighting Executive.. AGAIN

County commissioners blast Executive
Tom Muller for being uncooperative
Randy Kraft , WFMZ.com Reporter

"The commissioners’ unhappiness with Muller is spurring them to repeal a 31-year-old ordinance that designates the county executive to act as their agent in labor negotiations. The commissioners want to take back that job...


“They asked if they could sit in on negotiations and we said ‘you’re welcome to come to any one of them’,” said Muller. “It was an open door to them,” he said, adding most commissioners chose not to attend. Muller said former Commissioner Scott Ott showed up at one session, Scheller showed up at another “and no other commissioner showed up to any other session.”...

In 1984, only six years after that county charter was adopted, commissioners passed the ordinance designating the county executive to act as its agent in negotiating with unions representing county employees."

My Comments About The Article AboveSounds mostly like a political struggle of wills to me. In most cities the mayor is the main negotiator as well. Council members and commissioners get the final approval no matter what their chief executive agrees to or not. I consider this a 'Too many cooks spoil the broth' situation.

I'm a strong supporter of the will of the people. Voters elected Muller and that's just the way it is. The same goes for making any changing of the charter. This should also be left up to the voters.

What say you?