To the editor,
With the upcoming elections in the Town of Little Suamico, we clearly need new direction. After voting in a new board two years ago, election of Chairman Dale Mohr clearly was a mistake. He does not understand his new role as he is wearing too many hats. The cloud of working for Oconto County has brought many challenges of who Mohr truly represents.
Dale has trouble running meetings and cannot keep the meetings under proper decorum. At a recent plan commission meeting, the sheriff’s department had to be called, because Dale lacks leadership skills. I would like to see our sheriff’s department do their very important job of keeping our towns safe instead of babysitting at our meetings because Mohr cannot handle them.
Since taking over, Mohr has created a Park Commission and Ordinance Committee (both of which he put his friends on, etc., even though many others volunteered). Both committees were given no direction and cost the taxpayers more money. In my opinion, the committees are accomplishing nothing other than wasting tax dollars.
Chairman Mohr continues to lack transparency and does not listen to the public and consistently puts public comment at the end of agendas after items have been discussed and decisions have been made. This is not a leader and does not deserve a second term.
Another major mistake of Little Suamico was bringing back members of the old board for our plan commission. The old town board had many costly blunders too many to name, but one cost the town nearly $250,000, because of a lost state grant because of questionable bidding practice on the Cross Road project. If the Town of Little Suamico is going to advance, leave the old board nowhere near current government as we do not need repeat of the damage they caused in the past.
As election day nears, one has to look at who truly has earned a spot on the board now that we will be up to five board members, which brings more cost to the taxpayers. We do have candidates running, some of whom never attended past meetings and yes even an old board member who was part of the debacles of the past.
As I suggested many times, Town of Little Suamico needs an administrator who has the knowledge of running a town and has no connection to the county and can actually better our town and not expand government. Government should be smaller, not larger, and this is a mistake for Little Suamico.
Again, I encourage citizens to push for an administrator in Little Suamico if we truly want to move our town forward.
Beth Trudell, Little Suamico
