To the editor:
Trust and transparency are gone in Oconto County.
With the closed sessions to develop a resolution to find an option and approval to spend $250,000 of taxpayer money for a sexually violent person (Chapter 980) to live in a community in Oconto County and now the county pushing to build a new highway department at the price tag of $35 million to $55 million that will increase your property taxes even more, the citizens of Oconto County are owed the truth and transparency if our government will ever gain trust, which at this time is not happening.
Emails go unanswered or if answered are very vague. I requested to have all motions made at committee and board meetings explained in minutes, and I received we cannot do that as we only have to put the motion and if it was passed.
I also asked for motion votes to show how each supervisor voted so constituents would know how their representative voted and if they had questions, they could contact their supervisor. That was turned down, too, because motions just have to be noted in minutes if it passed or not.
Let’s not explain to the constituents what actually transpired, and it would be terrible to let them know any details.
This is not transparency, but one big coverup and Oconto County who refuses to live by their mission statement “to responsibly serve, support, and protect the people and places throughout our community.” Also, one of their values of integrity, being honest, fair, and trustworthy is gone in Oconto County.
The cameras and microphones have been set to go for over a year for board and committee meetings to be recorded so constituents can watch how their government works, but, yet no live recording of meetings has occurred. Please email or call your administrator and supervisor and ask them why this has not been implemented yet.
Until changes are made to the Oconto County Board and administration, and term limits are implemented, and we get rid of the good old boy mentality, nothing will change and Oconto County will continue on a downhill spiral.
Beth Trudell, Sobieski
