Lewis sets year-end goals

Interim Administrator Richard Lewis presented a list of “six-month goals” to the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners at their July executive session this week.

Among Lewis’s requests to the board was to grant him power to appoint Interim Finance Director Cathy Hartesvelt as permanent finance director. The board will consider empowering Lewis to do this at their regular session Tuesday.

“Last month, you put the finance director back underneath the administrator. But are you ready for me to move forward with the next step? Which is to make someone permanent (finance director),” Lewis asked. “If you say ‘yes,’ I’m appointing Cathy.”