In January 2009, our county will transition from three at-large supervisors each responsible for representing the interests of 100% of the county’s residents to five supervisors each responsible for representing the interests of their individual districts, i.e., 20% of the county.
The Board of Supervisors is an executive/legislative body. They can only make decisions when they meet as a body and a majority of the quorum present votes to take action. Although the action/decision they make could affect the entire county, each supervisor will ultimately only be accountable to the voters in his/her district, i.e., the 20% of the county he/she is representing.
If you are representing 100% of the residents today and accountable to 100% of the voters today and tomorrow you are representing 20% of the residents and accountable to 20% of the voters … Don’t you think your workload will eventually decrease and remain at a lower level than before? --Joel @ 2:10pm