In early 2014 Mr. Benjamin Hodge and myself filed a lawsuit in District Court claiming the Johnson County Board of Commissioners had exceeded their Home Rule Charter authority when dismissing previously appointed members of the Johnson County Mental Health Commission. Events preceding the suit were well documented by The PITCH shared here: http://nolathe.net/2014/01/02/county-commissioners-straight-jacket-mental-health-board-of-volunteers/
Johnson County commissioners get rid of its troubled mental-health board
Posted by Steve Vockrodt on Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:44 AM
- Steven Klika: “When you have cancer, you get rid of it all.”
JoCo BOCC claimed their intervention was necessary to end the nearly $1,000,000 per year funding out of General Funds to keep the Mental Health Fund solvent. After two court hearings the County persuaded the Judge that an old State Statute rendered the County’s Home Rule Charter void and ruled in favor of the County.
UPDATE, Lets look one year later.
This December 18, 2014 request for at least an additional $800,000 from General Funds is blamed on billing delays do to new software. Doesn’t that mean these tax dollars will be returned to General Funds when resolved? Shouldn’t that be stated? Isn’t this the same excuse used a year ago?
Never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed and sure BOCC would rather see us as patients and not as critics. But this just doesn’t seem to have worked out all that well. Surprised? Could we get their help with legal fees?
Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Big government and I am here to help.
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