Fairfield County’s bright potential must not be further darkened by a misguided, slip-shod, over-sensitive, controlling, complaint-prone county council. Council must stop using the good-ole-boy meter for such important areas as standing committee assignments and start looking at qualifications. They must replace secret meetings, secret votes, and effectively secret budget financials with full transparency.
If Council could somehow harness the power of professionally and productively conducting meetings, planning and follow-up, they could generate a massive amount of positive outcomes for their constituents.
Let’s look what Fairfield offers for our council to work with –
The county is powered by utility companies that supply 40+ percent of our county’s GDP and 35+ percent of our county’s revenues.
Scout Motors is a free economic magnet for Fairfield County.
Fairfield is located between the Columbia and Charlotte metro areas and all the amenities and opportunities these cities afford.
Fairfield has a strategically placed railroad system, an abundance of high-end outdoor recreation, thousands of acres of competitively priced land, historic tourism, a plethora of school choices, beautiful rolling countryside, and great people.
So, what is holding Fairfield back?
Our county council leadership needs to look in the mirror. Council’s leadership seriously needs to stop complaining about the good folks who elected them. They need to seriously reconsider why they’re being paid the big bucks. What is it they are supposed to be doing to earn their keep?
The answer is not, “What’s wrong with everyone else,” but “What’s wrong with county council?” The council leadership must trade-in their chaotic, dismissive, arrogant, entitled good ole boy focus if Fairfield is to have a bright future.
Fairfield’s council leadership must stop their petty bickering and start listing to their constituents’ suggestions.
Randy Bright
Ridgeway
