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Commissioners weigh whether to continue sitting on boards and committees; staff to schedule study session
Summary
Saline County commissioners discussed whether elected commissioners should continue serving on a long list of local boards and committees. County Administrator Phil Smith outlined which seats are statutory, which are set by bylaws and which could be delegated; commissioners asked staff to schedule a study session for fuller review.
The Saline County Board of Commissioners held an extended discussion March 4 about commissioners’ participation on local boards and committees and whether some seats could be delegated to department heads or community subject-matter experts.
Phil Smith, Saline County administrator, presented a compiled list of boards and explained the legal or bylaw basis for commissioner participation. He said community corrections is the most statutory of the boards mentioned, but local bylaws allow a…
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