Good Governance and the Restoration of the Samuels Library Public/Private Partnership

Good Governance is characterized by transparency, accountability, fairness, inclusiveness, and adherence to the rule of law. You need all 5 elements. Perfect transparency and accountability are not enough.

You also need:

FAIRNESS: Good governance mediates different interests to reach a broad consensus on what is best for the whole community and on policies to achieve it;

INCLUSIVENESS: Ensuring that all people have opportunities to improve or maintain their well-being.

We need Warren County Board of Supervisors (BOS) members committed to all 5 elements of good governance.

We need a BOS that will work as a team for the benefit of all citizens in Warren County.

The voters of Warren County have made it clear that they want to keep their award-winning library of the year.  And the BOS will have the opportunity to take action to restore the Samuels Library Public/Private Partnership, with the first step being to dissolve the failed Warren County Library Board (WCLB).  Any supervisor who votes to retain the WCLB will be voting for a failed policy and cannot be trusted to make competent decisions in the future.  Any supervisor who votes to retain the failed WCLB will not be listening to the voters and cannot be trusted to do anything for the benefit of Warren County.

The vote to dissolve the WCLB will be telling.  I hope we will see a BOS working as a team for the restoration of the Samuels Library Public/Private Partnership. That will be good governance.

Bill Grewe
Fork District
Warren County

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