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" The complete mis-handling of this issue is just another example of the basic problem which faces Livingston County residents. You have a population of 40,000 being governed by a body of 24 representatives!!! As you have witnessed many times in the past, this has lead to a total collapse of efficiency in the handling of important issues. Livingston County tax payers will continue to plod along with this local government inefficiency, until they finally "take the bull by the horns" and reduce their county board to a more efficient level! Find out how to legally reduce the size of your county board, and GET GOING on it! "Wake up and smell the coffee" folks. "

" I was told today that the county is paying for agency personal to come into the home to work. That alone could help explain the overage in cost. Who would want to take a job that they are not sure will be there in six months or a year, not me.I hope people have the good sense to start voting this board out and vote one in that will follow the people's wishes. "

" Do you have a radio?Frank Deninger is where the term give is coming from.It appears you may be one of the 18 "educated" board members so why not elaborate and "educate" the other 30,000 county residents of how this "compromise" with a "private" company is going to work.We "constituents" would sure like to know what the plan REALLY is. I certainly have not heard anyone, including you, use the term "sell". Exactly WHAT has the board authorized Bill Flott to do other than to go off on his own, as if he's an expert in nursing home development, and do more scheming under the table where nobody else really gets to know what's going on? There are 18 board members who are in their final term. This issue likely still won't be resolved when their terms expire and the people who are most interested in the nursing home are the same ones that go out to vote! "

" The board can't "GIVE" away anything, and I'm sure they know that. Where the term "GIVE" came from I have no idea, but I'm sure it came from the uneducated. I still think the county should have gotten out of the business without building a new home, but I guess sometimes you have to follow what your constituents are telling you. Unfortunately those of us who don't want the nursing home weren't vocal enough about that. Regardless it's obvious that the county has no business in the nursing home business; they have no clue how to run it and need to leave that to the professionals. They've squandered enough of our money over the last few years and have to cut off that endless pot somewhere. At least this way both sides should be somewhat happy. Medicaid individuals will have a place to go and the county can stop sinking money into the pit. "

" MPA, a management co., with experience in operating & overseeing building new nursing homes, was hired by the Liv. Co. board. Most board members didn't want to be bothered with running the nursing home. So they brought them in, now they want to build a new facility & turn it over to someone else. Where is the sense in this? Taxpayers are paying good money to the management co., let them do their job & see this through. The new facilicy should reman county - owned to assure any Liv. Co. resident, no matter what their financial status is, to have a place to go when their time comes. This was the mission when the first county nursing home was built. The voters made their wishes crystal clear 3 years ago. Why are most board members ignoring this? "

" This is absurd! They have spent years saying they can't abate county property taxes with landfill royalties so we taxpayers cannot have a break but now they are planning to "GIVE" $22 million to a private company just because they don't have the sense to figure this out! How can this be legal? I'm not sure what the answer is, but I consider a share of the $22 million to be mine...if they are planning on giving it to a private company, I say I want my cut out of it FIRST. This is preposterous...we have put up with the landfill while they let it destroy our environment only to have the idiots give the pay-off to a private company to toil away. What's incentive would a private company have to safeguard a project they don't have anything invested in??????????? "