GREEN: Works for taxpayers

Serving the public is more than a job. It is a sacred trust.

Ninety percent of voting Americans today think that Congress is doing a poor job. Washington has lost the public trust. We can’t let that happen in Kootenai County.

Current Kootenai County Commissioner Dan Green is a leading force in this county becoming one of the best managed in Idaho.

Dan doesn’t need a job. He has spent his working lifetime as a successful businessman and entrepreneur. Now, he has a passion for serving his community, which for him is a calling.

Since his election as county commissioner, Dan has put his business and managerial skills to good use. With his two fellow commissioners, he has saved the taxpayers $1,815,000 through:

• Staff reductions and reorganizations.

• A newly negotiated indigent care agreement with KMC

• Better recycling program, now extended to many rural areas.

• A new waste disposal contract.

• County Assessor Mike McDowell’s reorganizing the Assessor’s Department.

• Reducing Board meetings, to increase time to address more issues.

Dan has a vision for the future:

• Retain dedicated employees by providing competitive pay scales.

• Save money and increase efficiency by consolidating the four current scattered court locations.

• Protect private property rights and preserve natural resources.

• Make ordinances ‘user-friendly.’

• Require public approval for major county issues.

• Run government efficiently, honestly and openly.

• Control costs.

• Eliminate waste.

• Earn the public trust.

Thomas Jefferson said: “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”

Dan Green is public property worth keeping on May 15.

SYD and CHICKIE ALBRIGHT

Post Falls