Auditor Miller, Linn supervisors feuding again: Your take
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Empires are continuing to collide — the Linn County Board of Supervisors’ and Linn County Auditor Joel Miller’s.
The current flashpoint between supervisors and auditor is the ongoing dispute over who is going to manage the county’s 15 or so facilities.
Miller is auditor and also the county’s facilities manager, but it looks like the supervisors are going to snatch the oversight of facilities from him.
At the end of an extended and contentious back-and-forth at the supervisors’ Wednesday meeting, John Harris, the board’s chairman, told Miller that the supervisors needed to have a good working relationship with the director of the county’s facilities, and they don’t.
“You’re doing everything you can to make it antagonistic,” Harris told Miller.
Read the story linked above for more details. What are your views on the latest dispute?
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I haven’t followed this closely, but I keep coming to the same question. What are the Supervisors hiding that the must keep the auditor from finding?
As far as facility management, this is classic power grab, the bigger the budget the more power to wield and more opportunity at graft.
Evidence?Nope, none. But the mind can run wild when secrecy is the SOP.
In this instance, it looks to me like the supervisors are trying to justify their whopping pay increase. I thought they felt so over worked, over zealous seems more accurate.
If Mr. Millers job discription is to oversee county facilities and especially since he has a good working relationship with that director, the supervisors should back off. Maybe they should consider a taking a training class on how to get along with co-workers and constituents. However they should oversee the job and budget that Mr. Miller is in charge of now.
Question, what does running ahead of schedule on spending mean? Over budget?
I’m looking forward to when the state finally audits the Linn County Supervisors and makes a few heads roll. They’re certainly not living up to the standard for public service set by Jean Oxley.
I would agree that this sounds like the Linn BOS attempting to justify their 25% pay increase and a blatant slap in the face at Auditor Miller–who has been highly critical of management practices by the Linn BOS and other county departments.
With the pay raises they gave their selves and the way they are acting towards th e auditor, and their going back to their taj mah, they are thumbing their noses at the taxpayers and also the people they have to work with. It is time they like hauser. It is time to clean the house of supervisors of both parties and start over. they have become to arrogant.
Where’s the adult in the room? Hopefully it won’t take (another) court decision to settle this.
I am a fan of our Auditor. I have never met the guy. From my perspective, Mr. Miller has covered the facilities mgmt job to help out since the flood. He implemented the preventative maintence software to improve that portion of our county gov’t. A significant undertaking. And without asking for additional pay. I think the BOS need to thank him instead of undermining him. A smart manager would encourage and empower an employee who is as dedicated as our Auditor. I, for one, will not forget the the BOS pettiness in the next elections.
I saw a mention in the Gazette article that a report of the facilities is to be created by the BOS. I would really rather see a report from Mr. Miller first. He has the info and first hand knowledge. And I am tired of the BOS filtering the info given to us voters.