Ready on Day One....Or Not.

All I can say is that THIS is the most entertainment I have EVAH’ had from the Grafton County Commissioners meeting minutes. You know, sometimes my life is like a multi-colored rainbow sprinkling down happy Skittles everywhere!

This excerpt is from September 28th meeting:

Register of Deeds Bill Sharp along with Deputy Register Beth Wyman entered the meeting.

Candidate for Register of Deeds, Kelley Monahan arrived to discuss an agreement that Register of Deeds Sharp had entered into with UNH for a pilot program in a Geo-graphical Information System. She said that she felt she should be brought up to speed regarding this issue along with the other Deeds candidate as well as the towns involved. She suggested that there was going to be some kind of informational seminar that would take place on the 25th of October and felt that she should attend.

Commissioner Cryans asked RD Sharp if this was something that was taking place at the County Convention and he replied that it was. He said it was something UNH was going to present.

Commissioner Burton said that as a private citizen Ms. Monahan would likely have to pay to go to the Convention and do that through NHACo Executive Director Betsy Miller. Commissioner Cryans said that it would be best if she were to contact Miller as he has never heard of anyone from the private sector attending the meeting unless they were a vendor. He also stated that each elected official holds their office until the 2nd of November when the voting takes place. That person remains until the end of December and the new officer gets sworn in, which is in January. He thought it important to review the procedure with K. Monahan.

Commissioner Burton discussed various times that candidates running for office have done so on County property and have found themselves reprimanded for it.

K. Monahan said she just thought she should know what was going on.

RD Sharp then passed out some paperwork regarding revenue, up to date foreclosure information, the press release information regarding the GIS pilot program and a letter he had written to K. Monahan which asked her to cease and desist her pursuance of information from the Deeds staff.

He discussed the fact that he found it uncomfortable that K. Monahan has come to the Commissioners and has spoken to his staff before ever coming to him and didn’t think that was right to do.

Commissioner Richards asked if the cease and desist from RD Sharp was appropriate. There was a discussion about whether or not it was proper for Ms. Monahan to go into the Deeds office and discuss information with the staff.

Director Clough said that she had spoken to Ms. Monahan the night before and discussed the fact that she did not feel that it was appropriate for her to be speaking with the staff. Director Clough said there are two people running for that office and until that race is decided then the politics should be kept out of there.

And lastly, this little tidbit at the conclusion of the meeting:

J. Chamberlain said that he was planning to get some information about the job of Treasurer and now questions whether or not that is appropriate given the conversation with the Register of Deeds.

...did you really have to think about this one?