HOUSTON COUNTY: Tonight at 6:00 PM the Houston County Commission and Chairman will be sworn in for a four year term of office.
D1 Letesia Jackson Daniels and D3 Ashley Enfinger are being sworn in, which replaces D1 Curtis Harvey and D3 Ricky Herring. Both are new commissioners which walk into a budget approved by D1 Curtis Harvey, D2 Tracy Adams, D3 Ricky Herring, D4 James Ivey and Chairman Brandon Shoupe. And these 5 men have gotten Houston County $ 14 million dollars upside down financially in just three of their four year term.
D1 Curtis Harvey, D2 Tracy Adams, D3 Ricky Herring, D4 James Ivey and Chairman Brandon Shoupe have been in discussion with the local legislative delegation, Senator Donnie Chesteen, Senator Billy Beasley, Representatives Paul Lee, Jeff Sorrells, Steve Clouse and Rick Rehm wanting to increase the sales tax to overcome their financial disaster.
This commission begins with two fresh faces, but with three old faces which are responsible for the $ 14 million dollar upside situation.
Tonight the commission will set rules and regulations for the operation of the commission for the next four years. Alabama law states the Chairman is to “prepare” ( type ) up the agenda and bring to the commission meeting. In 2002, Chairman Brandon Shoupe got the commission ( D1 Curtis Harvey, D2 Tracy Adams, D3 Ricky Herring, D4 James Ivey and Chairman Brandon Shoupe ) to establish only the Chairman can set the agenda. No commissioner could require something on the agenda for the commission to discuss in an open meeting and vote on.
Tonight, we are going to see what D1 Letesia Jackson Daniels and D3 Ashley Enfinger are made out of. If they are for what is right, or want to continue with the financial and administrative mismanagement of Houston County.
Tracy Adams returns as a Houston County Commissioner only because Chris Love lost by 26 votes. Adams needs to be making up and making friends with everyone who supported Chris Love. Because if Chris Love had 27 votes then Tracy Adams would not be commissioner anymore.
We will see if Tracy Adams is ready to be a leader, and make where commissioners have input on the agenda, or is he going to continue as in his first four years to continue in the mismanagement of funds for Houston County and the upside down debt continue. And if Tracy Adams is going to do what is right, or what Brandon Shoupe tells him.
As RSN has no confidence in D4 James Ivey in doing anything but what Brandon Shoupe tells him.
Tonight at 6 PM, tells what direction Houston County will go, and is D3 Tracy Adams will continue to be a Brandon Shoupe puppet.
