The news on overton county is mostly negative, but the positive and negative stories are plentiful. The negative stories are those that are negative in nature, not necessarily because they are untrue, but because they are news we don’t want to hear.
The first story that I want to share here is a story about the county board that passed a resolution to name a new county building after the late great man, Ed Overton. The second negative story that I want to share is that the board has denied a request to build a state of the art building, which would have allowed a county of over 200,000 people to build a state of the art building for a county of just 10,000.
I’ve been a huge fan of Ed Overton for years, and I have to say that he would have been a brilliant county board chairman. He was a true visionary, and a person with great ideas that would have improved our country and our world. I’m just glad this one day a year we can live up to his legacy.
One of the great problems of cities is that the zoning laws are far from friendly. In overton county, the zoning rules were written so hard that even a young kid like myself would have to pass an exam to show that they were in the correct area. If you had any questions about what a certain building would be used for, you’d be forced to go to your local city council meeting and explain the zoning laws to the other members.
This was especially frustrating for someone as green as myself because I had no clue how to make the city council meetings more friendly or explain them to the members. But in the end I did pass my exam and got to see the results. It turns out that the city council meetings have been in place for over a hundred years.
The people of Overton County are not happy about this. While I’m sure I’m the only one who got into trouble for making the council meetings more friendly, I’m sure the rest of the county is feeling the same way. Some are even suggesting that Overton should be officially split into two counties. It’s pretty much the one area of the county that is growing the most, so I can’t really imagine anyone wanting to split it over a couple of years.
The council meetings are supposed to be a place for the people to gather, but that’s not the case.
People are always saying that they are tired of the council meetings being boring and having no actual substance. That might be true, but Im pretty sure that if they were a real office with a real leader, they would be a lot more productive.
If it had to be a real office with a real leader, I would like to see them get rid of the boring meetings. They are a waste of both time and money. It seems like they are actually more productive when the meetings are actually productive.
I agree. They are a waste of both time and money. The boring meetings are especially a waste of time. The council meetings are never productive. They just sit and talk about the same things day after day. The more time I spend in meetings, the more I feel like the meetings are not productive. The meetings are so dull, so predictable, and so boring that I feel like I have missed the point of the council meetings.
