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Robert Eastham of Flint Hill urged the supervisors during a work session June 12 not to be “panicked” into a decision on whether or not to hire a county administrator. Eastham advised the Board to study the issue and to heed the following warnings: 1) that a good administrator will be expensive and hard to find, 2) that an administrator. once hired, may come to dominate the county by usurping control from the supervisors, and 3) that an administrator will either refuse to do. or fail in attempting to do. all that the Board demands.
Of course Eastham is right in urging the supervisors to do their homework before hiring an administrator. Eastham’s other points, however, do not strike the heart of the matter. He fears a takeover by an administrator. If the Board of Supervisors allows itself to be dominated by one of its employees - in this case a county administrator - then that board ought not to be governing anyway.
The Virginia Code explicitly states that a county administrator is “removable at the pleasure of the governing body.” That statement alone should serve as sufficient leverage against the totalitarian designs of a county administrator.
That a good administrator will be expensive and hard to find may well be true, but that in no way should deter the su
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