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Constantine municipal officials are looking ahead at what course of action to take when village manager Mark Honeysett retires next year.
Village council members last week discussed whether to replace Honeysett, hire a part-time manager or operate without a village manager.
Facing a number of unanswered questions, council members agreed to meet with consultant Jim Bontrager for additional thoughts on how to proceed.
Council member Don King noted Colon and Centreville are St. Joseph County communities that do not have a village manager. If they can continue to operate without a village manager, perhaps Constantine could, too, King stated.
Bontrager will be asked to attend the council’s next meeting.
Honeysett plans to retire Feb. 28.
You have to have experienced, knowledgable, committed and pro-active officials and council. Schooled in every area of governance. Most current village officials and office personnel are not trained to the governance aspects of their positions. Even long-seated council members have displayed a lack of basic rules and operative reqirements. How many sitting council members have bothered to read their copy of Village General Law handbook,, the village ordinances, Planning Commission and Zoning Board handbooks, DDA rules and procedures, independent and inter-governmental boards, trained on budgets, employee regulations, government procurement, et al.
Too much toking, juicing and delulu here!
I watched the Village meeting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W-cLHZ-q5rU. (Have to turn up the sound.)
Colin G. isn’t joking. Couldn’t see all the council members, but there’s council guys that don’t know what the Manager and the DPW does? Not even their job descriptions!? Or anyone’s despite voting the whole time? And there’s most who come right out admitting they want to hire someone to “tell them what to do” while bitzing about spending too much money. Are all St. Joe County village meetings so clueless?
Thanks to Paige Willis and her volunteers citizen journalists for recording and posting local meetings on YouTube.