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•ATTORNEY COLLINS CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED WITH COMMISSIONER WODTKE VOTING IN OPPOSITION, AND COMMISSIONER WODTKE WAS RE-ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN. CHAIRMAN WODTKE TOOK OVER THE MEETING AND OPENED THE FLOOR FOR NOMINATIONS FOR VICE CHAIRMAN. COMMISSIONER LYONS NOMINATED COMMISSIONER DEESON AS VICE CHAIRMAN. COMMISSIONER DEESON DECLINED THE NOMINATION NOTING THAT IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SERVE SINCE HE LIVES SO FAR IN THE NORTH OF THE COUNTY. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT AGREED THAT THE POSITION OF CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN REQUIRE SOMEONE READILY ACCESSIBLE TO THE COURTHOUSE. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, TO NOMINATE COMMISSIONER LOY FOR THE POSITION OF VICE CHAIRMAN. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER $IEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THE NOMINATIONS. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY, AND COMMISSIONER Loy WAS RE-ELECTED VICE CHAIRMAN. CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED THAT THERE ARE TWO POSITIONS WHICH THE BOARD NEEDS TO MAKE OFFICIAL DECISIONS ON, AND THEY ARE THE COUNTY ADMIN- ISTRATOR AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY REAPPOINTED JACK G. JENNINGS AS COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR ' FOR THE ENSUING YEAR, MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, TO REAPPOINT GEORGE G. COLLINS, JR. AS ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF• COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, AND CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED THAT THE BOARD SHOULD CONSIDER A POSSIBLE CHANGE IN THE MANNER OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COUNTY SINCE IT MAY BE PREFERABLE TO PUT IT ON A CONTRACT BASIS TO SATISFY OUR PROBLEMS WITH THE AUDITORS.. THE CHAIRMAN EXPLAINED THAT THE COUNTY HAS.BEEN CRITICIZED BY THE AUDITORS, NOT AS TO THE DOLLARS WE ARE PAYING THE ATTORNEY, BUT AS TO THE FACT THAT THE COUNTY 7 BOOK PAGE au JAN 101979