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by George Gramlich
As we promised last week, the Custer County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) August 16, 2023 Executive Session (ES) transcript can be found here. If you recall, this ES was supposed to be about “the process for contract negotiations” with the proposed County Manager candidate Braden Wilson. It is against Colorado law to discuss things not listed as a subject for the ES, and as we noted last week, much of the meeting was definitely “off topic.”
What is really troubling about the transcript, is the utter disdain shown by Commissioner Flower, and to a certain extent by Commissioner Day, for the concerned citizens who show up at the BOCC meetings. Flower even uses curse words to describe the tax payers. Also, the reckless and unethical effort by Day to push the County Manager position through before the recall results were finalized shows a complete lack of competent and ethical leadership.
All in all, the transcript tells us a story of arrogance and disregard for the tax payers of this county. Hopefully, with Lucas Epp replacing the recalled Flower, things will proceed in a more ethical manner.

Here’s the transcript.
NOTE: After the transcript was distributed to the newspapers,
an error in transcription was found.

Correction to the August 16, 2023 transcript of the Executive Session.
The citizens who transcribed the recording of this meeting would like to offer their sincere apologies to Chairman Day for this mistake;

The transcript error:
Page 10, Line 23-25 of the transcript were assigned to Kevin Day.
All three lines should be assigned to Tom Flower.

23 CHAIRMAN DAY: I don’t work for them.
24 I represent them. It’s all
25 philosophical. I get that.

Subsequently, the error appeared in the Sentinel on page 22 of the September 29, 2023 issue.