10-02-2009, 11:14 AM
The contention that the current administration has no experience is not accurate. The responsibility falls primarily to Nancy Crawford and Bill Takaba. Nancy has been in the Finance Department for years and overseen land sales in that responsibility. Bill has been Finance Director under two administrations for a total of more than 10 years before becoming Managing Director. He is very capable and very sharp. Both know how much the County needs and understand the value of the land. If you ever deal with these people you will see their integrity, intelligence and commitment to the citizens of the County. They are experienced in land sales.
If the argument that Yagong makes held water, it would have been introduced decades ago. For that matter the same could be said for State Land sales (i.e. should they be overseen by the House/Senate of the Administration) and the Federal Government (i.e. same as the State). Neither is done for the simple reason that it is not only redundant and not necessary - it is wasteful and inefficient. Further, when politicians become involved in transactions through legislation - we politicize events that then result too frequently in very poor decision making, pontificating and the like - who needs it. If there is reason to believe that a side deal or poor sale is made there are many avenues to check it out and to prosecute the offender.
The same argument - oversight of transactions - could be made in every transaction the County, State or Federal Government makes. That is that the Public (who owns the governments and all that they own)should have transparency in all that is done. This would make for worse rather than better government. In those cases of fraud or bad decision making - the Public Official and Private Organization involved had best watch out as there are many out there who will work to catch up to them.
If the argument that Yagong makes held water, it would have been introduced decades ago. For that matter the same could be said for State Land sales (i.e. should they be overseen by the House/Senate of the Administration) and the Federal Government (i.e. same as the State). Neither is done for the simple reason that it is not only redundant and not necessary - it is wasteful and inefficient. Further, when politicians become involved in transactions through legislation - we politicize events that then result too frequently in very poor decision making, pontificating and the like - who needs it. If there is reason to believe that a side deal or poor sale is made there are many avenues to check it out and to prosecute the offender.
The same argument - oversight of transactions - could be made in every transaction the County, State or Federal Government makes. That is that the Public (who owns the governments and all that they own)should have transparency in all that is done. This would make for worse rather than better government. In those cases of fraud or bad decision making - the Public Official and Private Organization involved had best watch out as there are many out there who will work to catch up to them.