GRANT COUNTY - Reader wants change in government

In response to your article about the state auditor's office finding fault over certain Grant County behavior, I have to ask: When will the county get its act together?

Many of the auditor's findings are nothing new for Grant County. For the most part, these very findings have been the norm for the better part of the last 10 years. Also, it appears that the "miscommunications" between public works and accounting has been the case for about three years. It couldn't be too terribly complicated to get everybody on the same page.

There sure seems to be some real problems and conflicts down there, which makes me question if the people's interests are first and foremost.

Given the repetitively inaccurate information and procedures at the county level, along with the whispers of an upcoming crisis in delinquent property tax revenues, it wouldn't be much of a stretch for one to wonder if Grant County soon will be heading the direction of Jefferson County, Ala., Boise County, Idaho, or Harrisburg, Penn.

The commissioners are supposedly hired by the electorate to effectively and decisively tend to the county's business in an efficient manner. We don't need managers that behave as if they were winners in a high school popularity contest, in which a pretty face or a school-boy grin carries more weight than actually having some substance between their ears.

I'd like to see some progress and results in exchange for their $80,000-plus salary, bennies and perks.

Ken McLeod

Ephrata