Fire board to appoint Ohtaki successor

Is it in the public interest to have the Fire Chief express his support of an appointment to the Board? Who will be the gate keeper of the public funds that suport the fire department personnel?
Surely not one that is appointed in this economic enviornment.
We need an election to continue to monitor the spiralling costs associated with personnel.

The Chief does not select the incoming member. The applicants are interviewed by the entire board and than board decided. Then the appointee has to rerun for the position at election time in Nov.

The chief cannot support or oppose whom the boards chooses to fill a seat. The board voted to appoint from interested and only qualified applicants as opposed to spending another $120K or more for an election, of course this includes your money W Patterson as well. The residents have a really good and smart board working in their behalf, especially in these troubled times. Each one brings a full understanding of finances, operations, adminstration etc to their elected positions, after all they are tax payers as well. As far as finances go, everything has to have board approval, no one enity has control over any revenues. Thank you for your concerns

Well said "concerned".