Commissioners get paid good money to do the job they're NOT doing!

Well, the White Pine County Commission, after weeks of kicking the can down the road, finally approved the contract with Reck Brothers for the Duck Pond project, yet these commissioners continue to plead ignorance.

County Commissioner Hank Vogler: We have been left in the dark for a very long time, and it seems like it should be up to these five people and that's why we have a County Commission is to oversee things. And then the bomb gets dropped on us at the last minute. And it's all based on something that happened before any of us got here.

Commissioner Vogler, however, has been on the commission for three years, including much of the Duck Pond project timeline. Commissioners are paid $24,000 a year, and in 2026, thanks to the Legislature, that pay will increase to $33,000 a year. Commissioners do not get paid that much for four hours of work.

The job is to investigate agenda items and know what is going on before walking into meetings. If the motivation is simply collecting a paycheck, then save taxpayers the money and resign—because right now, only one commissioner is actually doing their job.