Last Week’s Letter From the Current Board of Commissioner’s (BOC) Chair Brian Bock

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:16

I was not surprised to read last week’s letter from the current Board of Commissioner’s (BOC) Chair Brian Bock. While I like Brian personally and have a number of friends and family who are Republicans, I can distinguish between the personal relationships, our political actions and our core beliefs.

It was par for the course for Chairman Bock’s willingness to make issues where none exist, to project his behavior and actions on to others and to stubbornly stick to a narrative regardless of context and/or factual basis. Indeed it was true that I asked Board of Education (BOE) Chair David Hamm as the Chair of the Chatham County Democratic Party (CCDP) for his board’s justification of nominating the BOC to receive a state award. I asked the question in part because it was my understanding that there had been some rough patches over the past two budget cycles between the BOC and the BOE, there had been a failure to cooperate between the two boards to align voting districts during the redistricting process, the BOC had passed a controversial resolution 3-2 supporting charter school legislation in the General Assembly, and naturally the unequal relationship that exists between the BOC and BOE because the BOC ultimately controls the checkbook for the county funding of the schools.

The last time I checked, neither the chair of the GOP or the CCDP, the Mayors of any Chatham County municipalities nor their respective boards have any financial control of BOC and BOE decisions. In fact the Town of Pittsboro is currently cooperating with the BOE by annexing Northwood to save the BOE money on its water expenses and working with the BOE to create a skatepark in Pittsboro for Chatham citizens.

I never expected to be publicly excoriated for merely asking a question. Of course the basis for the public flogging was the suggestion that I had somehow brought politics into the process. How quaint. The process is inherently political because we elect officials to the BOC and BOE to make policy and funding decisions based in part on the will and desires of the citizens. And these policies derive from platforms that candidates, political parties and other interested parties continuously vet and present to the public during every election cycle.

As I said to Randall Riggsbee last week, after conversing with BOE Chair David Hamm, I was satisfied David had the best intention with his actions and unsatisfied that merely asking a question for clarification would result in a ridiculous political brouhaha. Clearly Mr. Bock intended to utilize the mere nomination of an award as a basis for political maneuvering or he would not have released a press release regarding the nomination during election season and he would have waited to find out whether the BOC had actually won the award before such a release. It is a theater of the absurd and the height of projection and a masterly of distraction to accuse others of the actions one has mastered so well.

I look forward to working with both the BOC and the BOE on issues of mutual concern and interest in the future.

Mayor Randy Voller
Chair of the CCDP (Chatham County Democratic Party)

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Last Week’s Letter From the Current Board of Commissioner’s (BOC) Chair Brian Bock
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
I was not surprised to read last week’s letter from the current Board of Commissioner’s (BOC) Chair Brian Bock. �While I like Brian...

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