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boor,".� U PAGE l� also that a number of people were involved in the negotiations and that he did not feel it was fair to pick on one or two people. The Board realizes there are improvements; they are already underway. Commissioner Adams responded that the first bricks have to get thrown at the Commissioners, excluding (new) Commissioner Ginn. She accepted the responsibility. She was disappointed that she never had a chance to see the contract when it was presented to the Board and became public. This type of negotiation by staff is not subject to the sunshine law. Contracts have to be negotiated, terms changed, and somewhere there is a happy medium. Negotiations were cut off appropriately by Administrator Chandler. She thought that somewhere we were derelict in not checking references, but believed that when the contract got to Commission level these things would have come out. She appreciated Mr. McClure's interest and involvement. Commissioner Macht commented that Mr. McClure's assertion that the Board was on the "brink of signing the contract" was inaccurate. If that had occurred, it would have been only after long discussions and long investigation. He reported that Mr. McClure's assertion that we would end up with the garbage of New York and New Jersey could happen right now under flow control. Commissioner Macht then proceeded to give a short update on flow control topics that he had learned at the recent NACo Conference. He advised that the status of the flow control legislation is very troublesome, and points to the need of doing something with garbage and recyclables. The Board was making progress on a good project, but unfortunately it was with someone whose honesty was very much in question. It does not mean that the Board would have contracted in a way to jeopardize the citizens. Commissioner Ginn thought the contract negotiations had gotten too far down the road. She asked for the documents because she knew it would take a long time to digest them. When she first read them, she reacted the same as Mr. McClure. She felt Mr. McClure was not out of line in his statements. She believed the matter was handled carelessly. She addressed various questions to the County Administrator. She stated she had lost confidence in Director Pinto and County Attorney Vitunac, and that, right now, the entire matter was a big question mark to her. Commissioner Tippin responded concerning his statement, by advising that he has been around politics for a number of years, and he thought that at a County Commission meeting, a public 24 March 11, 1997