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DISCUSSION RE HEARING OFFICER FOR MARY KISER MATTER County Attorney Vitunac noted that last week the Board authorized him to hire with the Administrator's approval a local attorney to act as a hearing officer. He has got two attorneys who are competent in his mind and who are willing and Attorney Wayne McDonough, Mrs. Kiser's attorney, has approved both of them, but the County Administrator has problems with this because neither one of these attorneys is a labor expert. While he appreciates the Administrator's feelings, Attorney Vitunac stated that his recommendation would be that we hire someone with labor experience if this matter goes to a full fledged hearing, but he would recommend that we first have a local hearing before the attorneys just to see if we should spend the thousands of dollars to go to a full fledged hearing. Attorney Vitunac stressed that he needs some direction from the Board because he has the local attorneys ready and had expected to hire them for both those functions, but the Administrator doesn't want either of them to do the full fledged hearing. Administrator Balczun noted that the suggestion of Mr. Polackwich was made to him about 20 minutes ago. He is not familiar with the background of either of the attorneys proposed and would at least like to look into this before making a decision. Chairman Scurlock asked if the desire of the Commission is to go ahead with a local attorney in the first stage or are we looking to go to the National Labor Relations people. Commissioner Eggert did not believe there was any of that feeling in her motion. For the sake of all members of staff and of the County Commission and Mary Kiser herself, she was just trying to find someone as objective as possible because this has gone on so long that there is a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of confusion and conflicts of opinion as to what is legal and what is not. She, therefore, thought we should go out AUG 1 40 Boos F10E•�91