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During the Monday the 21st meeting of the BOICC and during the public comment period several people spoke of the unprofessional comments and personal attacks that were made at the previous commissioners meeting. The ICC commented on these constituent comments during the Commissioner Comments.

Ms Homola immediately began her attacks on Commissioner Emerson by stating that there were some comments made in the local newspaper and then goes on to tell us that they will not entertain addressing these comments. Then why was the subject of the comments in the paper even brought up? These unknown comments in the paper which Ms Homola claims are false are unknown and not in the minutes of the meeting or in the discussions. Ms Homola goes on to state that the commissioner meeting was recorded and the recording is available on the counties website. Interesting dialogue to say the least. 

I agree with Ms Homola that all resident of the Island need to view this video, it was shocking in that the display by Angie Homola and Helen Johnson was nothing more than a personal attack on Ms Emerson. 

The video of the previous meeting comments in question can be found here:

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Here is another interesting tidbit of information concerning the unprofessional conduct of Angie Homola and Helen Price Johnson at the last commissioners meeting.

The justification of the attack on Kelly Emerson by Angie Homola and Helen Price Johnson is based on a comment by an alleged complaint by a “concerned citizen” at the October 3rd, 6:00 p.m. Commissioner’s Public Hearing on the Budget. Well as it turns out this comment to the commissioners was made by none other than the Vice Chair of the Democrat party. Nothing like having a member of your own political party speak at meetings to make up issues that you can later use as material for a personal attack. In defense of the Vice Chair it is apparent that she was not making a complaint but merely asking a question. This has been twisted to make it appear that she was making a complaint about Commissioner Emerson, please view the video and judge for yourself.

You can view the meeting where the Vice Chair of the Democrat party makes this comment to the commissioners by clicking here, it starts at time marker 1:41:20 :

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Here is a link to a very sad and unprofessional exchange between our county commissioners.

http://www.avcaptureall.com/Sessions.aspx#session.3c2a24fd-a5c4-4bae-a3d5-971f7ed27228

The exchange in question starts at 50:26 of the meeting.

The subject is appointment of chair of the county commissioners. Normally in past history the chair position is rotated between the commissioners. With Angie Homola just having the chair and Helen Price Johnson having the chair before Ms Homola it was natural to think that this rotating chair would have been appointed to Kelly Emerson. This is not what happened in fact what happened is one of the most disturbing displays of unprofessional conduct I have ever seen coming from our elected officials.

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http://www.seattlepi.com/sound/427932_sound104370718.html

I would venture to say the audience that Ms. Homola was speaking to was a collection of local government employees/elected officials dependent on taxpayer dollars and that is why she received applause.

The votors were quite clear in the soundly defeated property tax increase that was included in the past election.

Apparently Ms. Homola and the rest of the county commissioners are blind to the fact that a clear majority of Island County voters want the county to fund basic services and not to fund most of the feel good programs that our county has saddled us with.

I would suggest that if these programs need to be funded that they look to the public at large to make donations to keep them floating. Our property taxes have for years been used to fund many programs that benefit small interest groups and not the public at large. Let the people pay for these programs instead of the property tax payers.

Does it make sense that the county commissioners are defunding the sheriffs office to preserve many of these feel good programs?
The sheriffs office is a critical service to Island County taxpayers and here we have our commissioners cutting the budget for this critical service preserving money for items that clearly are not essential services.

It is time that we find county commissioners who are more in tune with the people of Island County and the wishes of the majority of the citizens