Charter Amendments

They call him "Easy" according to his car dealership commercials, but that didn't fit earlier this week.

Ronnie Robinson didn't need his brother-in-law Ricky's help to bite a couple of butts at the County Commission's Policy and Rules Committee meeting Monday. After hearing Code Enforcement Director Bill Bodenweber question the patriotism of car dealers during a discussion about the county's sign ordinance, Robinson got hot.

He questioned Bodenweber's professionalism and accused him of harrassing certain businesses. That bite must have felt good, because then he took a chunk out of County Commissioner Doug Conkey.

or, The Other Amendments 

Possible amendments to the Clay County Home Rule Charter, our local constitution, get discussed frequently here at MCS. No one, though, has brought up two proposed amendments making the petition-signing rounds, even though the petitions were initiated by Citizens for the Protection of Voters' Rights, a political action committee whose formation was announced on this website.

One of CPVR's proposals affects the formula used to determine County Commissioners' salaries, establishing equal pay for all Commissioners, including the new four-year chairman, assuming there is one after the election.