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Updated: 12:06 PM May 8, 2009
Marshall County commissioner speaks out
MARSHALL COUNTY, OK -- One Marshall County Commissioner says he's fed up with the way things are being done in his county. A retiring Marshall County commissioner says some of the leaders there are not looking out for the best interest of the county.
Posted: 9:38 PM May 7, 2009Reporter: Daniel Armbruster Email Address: daniel.armbruster@kxii.com |
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MARSHALL CO., OK -- One Marshall County Commissioner says he's fed up with the way things are being done in his county. A retiring Marshall County commissioner says some of the leaders there are not looking out for the best interest of the county.
"I'm very fed up with what's been going on, the way the money is being spent," Marshall County Commissioner Tom Adams says.
Adams says residents should be outraged at county leaders about a bridge on Whiskey Creek Road that cost taxpayers $500,000.
"There's not a house on it, there's not a school bus that travels it. It's a road to nowhere. Now if the public wants to gripe about something, that's what they should be griping about instead of this $10,000 transfer," said Adams.
The $10,000 Adams is referring to is money he wants to send to the new Department of Corrections facility in Madill to help with construction.
In a public meeting on Monday, a citizen from Adams' district opposed the transfer from Adams' District 3 to the City of Madill to help fund the new D.O.C. center.
County Commissioners Royce Bartee and Wayne Scribner agreed with the citizen and voted against the transfer 2 to 1. But Adams questions Bartee's motives.
"Royce Bartee, he's dead against the D.O.C. building and D.O.C. workers but the only road project that he has ever done he used D.O.C. boys," said Adams
District One Commissioner Bartee was out of town Thursday, but did say over the phone he voted to prevent the money transfer because he says Adams should have asked the other county commissioners for approval.
Adams' says he believes the decision was personal.
"That's not even legal. This has been done a year ago. Yeah that's illegal the way they did that," Adams said.
Adams says there have been other instances where the county could have received money to help fund a new E-911 system to help emergency workers find homes faster, but he says his collegues blocked that as well.
Adams is retiring after 12 years of service to Marshall County as county commissioner for District 3. He says he wants to spend more time with his family, but he's quitting a year and a half before his term ends because of other reasons, too.
"it's gotten to where it bothers me, all the controversy," Adams said.
A date to elect Adams' replacement has yet to be set.
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