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Editorial: Please attend the water board meeting tonight Adair Countians have learned the hard way that incompetent leadership is no bargain no matter how low the salary, how long the hours the leader puts in, how hard they work. Results are what matters. Adair County does not have a water crisis. We have a big time, impending, possibly of disastrous plane-is-crashing into-the-mountain proportions - hospital crisis. We have a jobs creation problem, and poor performance and results and failure to provide vision in so many areas. But there is no crisis at the CAUD - the Columbia/Adair County Utilities District. It works. Its rates are competitive. CAUD's assets-to-liabilities ratio is sound. The Adair County Fiscal Court has never been asked for one dime to support it. Has never had to bail it out with a special bond issue. CAUD deserves accolades. But don't take my word for it; attend three consecutive CAUD meetings quietly, attend all other boards three consecutive meetings and listen, and make up your own mind about which ones are providing leadership, which ones are not; which entities are truly solvent, which ones are not. The CAUD board meets at 4pmCT, this afternoon, Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY. The five member board is Chairman Danny Downey, and members Robert Flowers, Rudy Higginbotham, Larry Legg, and Rabon Burton. - ED WAGGENER By Ed Waggener The Columbia/Adair County Utilities Board meets tonight. For most meetings, very, very few people show up. Rarely is there a member of the Adair County Fiscal Court, though occasionally Judge Executive Ann Melton is there. I've rarely seen a Columbia City Councillor there, except for Robert Flowers, who sits on the CAUD board. Only occasionally does another member of the media show up. I've never seen anyone from the schools, a Lindsey Wilson representative, a member of the Columbia Adair County Economic Development Authority, or the Mayor of Columbia at a meeting. Yet, the meetings are the most inspirational of any in Adair County public life. If one goes for no other reason, go for the optimism, for the spiritual value. To reinforce the belief that Adair Countians can accomplish anything. When the occasional visitors come to a meeting, they will be there to speak for a petition for service. They are treated in the most courteous manner by the Board, and by CAUD General Manager Lenny Stone. If water service can be provided, it is. If service has to be delayed for a valid reason, it is again courteously explained. The CAUD makes information readily available to media, and if additional information is needed, it is also provided - without argument and without being asked why it is wanted.(Indeed, no citizen asking for public records information should be asked why they want it.) This evening, I hope there is a big increase in attendance. I hope enough people show up to require moving it to another venue. Then I hope those who have never attended three consecutive board meetings before will sit back, listen, and attend at least three consecutive meetings before offering their genius on making the water system better. Are there valid issues one can argue about the CAUD performance? Of course, but they are trivial ones compared to problems in ALL other boards' operations. I attend all of the CAUD meetings I possibly can. I try to go at all public meetings. If I were to rank the competence of leadership, the competence of the board, the vision of the board, and the ethics of the board, I would rank the CAUD head and shoulders above the rest. Too often, the other boards look at reasons why not. The Columbia Adair County Utilities District looks at monumental problems, and finds ways to make it happen. Consequently, we now have a water system which is the absolute envy of most in the state. With the equal leadership in other areas of Adair County life, this place might be the idyllic paradise it was meant to be. This story was posted on 2012-02-09 09:25:58
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