The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners seems to have reached a consensus Tuesday that the next board should choose their own administrator, as the current board is unlikely to hire one before the Nov. 5 elections anyway.
As interim Administrator Richard Lewis noted, the composition of the next board is going to be radically different. Even if the election results favor the incumbent candidates, only three out of seven county commissioners will be back in 2025. And all three of these commissioners are facing opposition from the opposing political party.
Two of the sitting commissioners, Jim O’Rourke and Doug Rexroat, opted not to run for re-election. A third commissioner, Melinda Lautner, lost her party’s nomination in the Aug. 6 primaries, and a fourth, Jamie Kramer, resigned from her position last month.
