Executive Director Sharon Coffman, Keep Polk Beautiful, addresses the Polk County Board of Commissioners. She gave history and answered questions about the organization. (Agnes Hagin/thepolkfishwrap.com)
This comes after the board decided KPB is not an official county department.
Larry Tolbert appeared before the group during Monday’s work session.
He said, as a result of the board’s decision, KPB would incur additional expenses such as insurance and a computer.
Tolbert asked the board to give up to $1,000 during the transitional period to help with these needs.
He also requested that the agreement be changed to reflect a notice of 6 months instead of 30 days if the status changes.
“We want to get things back on the right track,” he said.
Following comments by Sharon Coffman, KPB’s executive director, Marshelle Thaxton, board chair, explained funding.
He said money put into KPB is part of Polk’s contract with Waste Industries, which annually donates $10,000 for environmental education such as litter and recycling.
“We don’t have plans to change the way this money is budgeted,” he said. “However, we can’t guarantee the funds or commit future boards to our action.”
Thaxton congratulated Coffman on the wonderful job that KPB volunteers are doing and emphasized that the county board is not trying to kick anyone into the ditch.
“We are not abandoning you,” he said.
The matter was referred to Manager Clinton Lester, who is to work with KPB to resolve issues about an agreement.
“However, we can’t guarantee the funds or commit future boards to our action.”
The above quote form Mr. Thaxton is such an oxymoron statement. Every decision made by this current board of commissioners commits future boards to their actions until a future board overturns or modifies a decision. Example: If this board passes a county wide ordinance it is in effect until some future date that ordinance is revised, ammended or voted to do away with it. Another wxample is when this board votes on a budget and it is an election year then this board has committed a budget for new members if the current memebers are defeated. What idiots we have running our county.
RE-ELECT NO ONE
Beautiful to reach new agreement
If they enter into a contract with KPB, then future boards would have no choice but to fulfill such a contract.
Future boards can overturn county policy, but if a contract is agreed upon, then future boards would have to fulfill this contract. I would imagine that a clause could be made that would not commit future boards to this contract, but i'm not sure that KPB would go for that.