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With lame-duck Commissioner Leon Allen absent, reelected commissioners Warren and Giangrieco agreed to all (12) motions on the agenda, including the 2012 budget. The 9 to 9:15 a.m. meeting on Wednesday, December 28, closed out the commissioners’ regularly-scheduled meetings for 2011. When asked by this reporter what she considered to be her greatest achievement during her chairmanship, Mary Ann Warren replied that she was proud “taxes had been reduced.” Additionally she took a moment to praise “the way the three commissioners worked together,” and that “there was diversity among the three of them, but none of them had come there with their own agenda.”

While the commissioners’ penchant for agreement, be it bipartisan or collaborative, was profoundly manifest, it provoked one observer to question their consistent agreement absent foundational transparency in public policy formulation. Commissioners’ “transparency,” it was charged, amounted to nothing but opacity, if not outright violation of the Commonwealth’s Sunshine Law. Edna Paskoff asked a series of questions concerning the procedures followed to arrive at imminent budget passage. She asserted that the county’s budget should be discussed at commissioners/public meetings to have an open process in which the public could participate. Mrs. Paskoff inquired as to when such discussions had been conducted in public. And when, she asked, had the public had an opportunity to express their opinions or have any input to the proposed budget? Commissioners, she lectured, must discuss budgetary issues before the public, rather than find agreement behind closed doors, if they are to conform to state law.

CORRECTION

In the December 28, 2011 edition of the County Transcript it was reported in error that James Michael Jerauld and Linda L. Robinson were married, when in fact they have not been. The reporter apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused.

DEEDS

David R. Cooper, Jr. (estate) to Daniel B. Edgar, in Choconut Township for $340,000.00.

Shawn T. (by sheriff) and Erin D. (by sheriff) Truex to Firstar Bank (FKA) US Bank, in Lanesboro Borough for $3,681.93.

Norma Osterling to Norma and Scott Osterling, in New Milford Township for one dollar.

Richard Lee and Ruth R. Hester to Richard Lee and Ruth R. Hester and Diane Hudock, in Silver Lake Township for one dollar.

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