You can’t return a serve that doesn’t arrive

Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 4:32 pm  Tip Johnson

By now, most everyone is aware that the county sent a controversial promotional piece supporting the jail tax to voters, paid for with tax funds. 

I got curious when the county reported that it cost about $28,000 because the line item in the consultant’s contract budgeted around $86,000 (See Exhibit A – Scope of Services/Public Outreach).  Furthermore, the mailer curiously featured three public officials and quite a bit of questionable information.  So I asked the county for some details – all of which are public records:

From: Tip Johnson
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 8:39 PM
To: PublicRecordsOfficer
Subject: Public Disclosure Request

Hi Mark,
Request
I think this should be and hope it will be all digitally available without too much trouble on your part.

Time is of the essence. […]

Read Tip’s complete article on NorthwestCitizen here.