Category: Board of Commissioners
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Ottawa Impact support proposes commissioners 60% pay hike
Had enough yet of Ottawa Impact commissioners? No? How about helping themselves to a 60% pay raise? Would that do it? Compensation Committee Resolution If pushed through, and what isn’t if promoted by the Ottawa Impact commissioners, Ottawa County commissioners will have the highest salaries throughout West Michigan even beating out Kent and Kalamazoo counties.…
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Satanic Temple Invocation & Other Nonsense
Three minutes. Three minutes of tolerance was all it would take to declare their support and compliance to the constitutional ideal of Freedom of Religion. But no, it was too much to ask of the Christian commissioners and their supporters who flooded the room and entryway. Wailing and gnashing of teeth have nothing on the…
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John Gibbs vs Ottawa Impact
Recent allies in the effort to turn Ottawa County into a Christian Nationalist stronghold, have now turned on each other. Actions that were once applauded and supported by Joe Moss and Ottawa Impact cadre were then transcribed into a seven-page letter as accusations and cause for John Gibbs termination. In March a complaint made by…
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John Gibbs: Buyer’s Remorse
If you are one of the scripture quoting suck-ups who speak at Commissioner meetings, you probably will not appreciate the irony of the latest three-stooges-show we must now put up with instead of competent county government. If this statement sounds harsh, it does not do justice to my complete disgust with the adolescent, inexcusable, and…
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Ottawa Impact – One Year Report Card
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Ottawa County: OI – this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into!
For an entire year, the extreme Christian Ottawa Impact commissioners have searched for a way to get rid of Adeline Hambley, the director for the Ottawa County health department – and failed. They first tried to fire her without cause, seeing her as an instrument of government tyranny (she is not). But the job comes…
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Ottawa County Commissioner Kyle Terpstra Resigns
Kyle Terpstra resigns from Ottawa County Board of Commissioners. Terpstra said his resignation was the result of “careful consideration and due to significant changes in my personal and professional life”. Terpstra was commissioner for district 6, Georgetown Charter Township. A replacement will be appointed until the next election in 2024. Terpstra was supported by Ottawa…
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Ottawa County: Bribery
Ottawa County has agreed to pay its administrative health officer $4 million to step down 10 months after trying to demote her without cause – the largest settlement in the county’s history and nearly the exact amount the board cut from the public health department’s budget this year. To avoid further litigation, the Ottawa Impact…
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Ottawa Impact – Too Extreme for Ottawa County
What does it mean? Is it OT, is someone protesting overtime? OI – oy vey, what does OI stand for? Ottawa Impact! Oh yeah, where can I get one of those signs? The signs are popping up all over Ottawa County in front of Democrat, Republican and even religious households. There is no central organized…
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Ottawa County Sexualization of Children
Resolution to Protect Childhood Innocence Ottawa County board of commissioners passed the following Resolution to Protect Childhood Innocence at the June 27th, 2023 commissioners board meeting. Weaponization of Children The Resolution to Protect Childhood Innocence is, of course, not about protecting children at all, but a tactic commonly employed by extremists, to use the concept…