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statement was that the Board should do much “homework” before deciding to hire, or not to hire, a county administrator. “I urge the Board...to become totally informed and not to be (panicked into voting on (the issue) either way,” Eastham argued.
He told the Board that it would be expensive to hire a qualified administrator. He argued that the workload contemplated by the Board for a would-be administrator was much too great. According to Eastham, “A candidate will either 1) be turned off when he learns of all there is to do, 2) say he will do it and won’t, or 3) try to do it and fail.”
He also warned the Board about wanting to delegate “all things” to an administrator, using Loudoun County as an example of how an administrator could usurp power from the Board of Supervisors. In Loudoun, Eastham said, “the administrator is saying to the supervisors ‘stay out of the day to day business, you make policy’.”
In his final point, Eastham appealed to the county’s history. He asked the supervisors if they “propose to change the form of government that has been in the county since 1833 without first consulting with the public.” He urged the Board to hold a public hearing before deciding to hire a county administrator.
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