No return to weekly meetings

Whitman County Commissioner Greg Partch Monday was re-buffed by fellow commissioners in his request to return to a weekly meeting schedule.

“We are a full-time board,” Partch told commissioners Michael Largent and Pat O’Neill in a workshop session Monday. “To only meet only two weeks is just too long to deal with anything.”

Commissioners earlier this year opted to switch from meeting every week to every other week to reduce the workload of Maribeth Becker, commissioners’ clerk.

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