WANTED: MASON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Submitted to Shelton Blog by Tom Davis Mason County Progressive
Mason County is looking to hire three new commissioners. Duties include showing up to meetings on time, listening to citizen concerns and putting community needs before your own.
The successful candidate will possess a heart that works in conjunction with his or her brain, a small ego and a large understanding of people.
Education is not as important as life experience, so long as that experience includes people, and not just corporations.
Applicants must be prepared to work 20 to 80 hours a week, depending on local conditions, and be available to address the needs of a broad range of ongoing issues.
Must be able to work with other municipalities toward a common goal for the common good, and not just go off and do your own thing.
Applicants need not to have been a resident of Mason County for 60 years, but should have a firm grasp on local conditions and bring feasible solutions to chronic problems.
Above all, the successful candidate will have a proven track record of volunteerism, community involvement and a willingness to listen to new ideas.
Due to a series of unfortunate episodes, it is necessary to list some characteristics that are deemed undesirable for the position:
Mason County is looking to hire three new commissioners. Duties include showing up to meetings on time, listening to citizen concerns and putting community needs before your own.
The successful candidate will possess a heart that works in conjunction with his or her brain, a small ego and a large understanding of people.
Education is not as important as life experience, so long as that experience includes people, and not just corporations.
Applicants must be prepared to work 20 to 80 hours a week, depending on local conditions, and be available to address the needs of a broad range of ongoing issues.
Must be able to work with other municipalities toward a common goal for the common good, and not just go off and do your own thing.
Applicants need not to have been a resident of Mason County for 60 years, but should have a firm grasp on local conditions and bring feasible solutions to chronic problems.
Above all, the successful candidate will have a proven track record of volunteerism, community involvement and a willingness to listen to new ideas.
Due to a series of unfortunate episodes, it is necessary to list some characteristics that are deemed undesirable for the position:
a) Finding ways to ignore citizen concerns
b) Generating unnecessary lawsuits
c) Keeping commissioner salaries inexcusably high
d) Obfuscating the issues
For these reasons, advocates for special interests and professional politicians need not apply.
For more information, applicants are encouraged to take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves: Do I really care about my community or am I just in this for a paycheck?
Applications can be downloaded at WWW.NOMORETIM@ALL, and must be postmarked by midnight, Nov. 6th, 2012. (Last pickup for drop offs is 8:00 PM.)
Mason County strives to be an equal opportunity employer.
Photo by John Cox
For more information, applicants are encouraged to take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves: Do I really care about my community or am I just in this for a paycheck?
Applications can be downloaded at WWW.NOMORETIM@ALL, and must be postmarked by midnight, Nov. 6th, 2012. (Last pickup for drop offs is 8:00 PM.)
Mason County strives to be an equal opportunity employer.
Photo by John Cox
Oh Tom, I love it when you say obfuscating; we so seldom get to use that word in a sentence, unless we are talking about Mason County government.
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