1st Place: Superintendent’s salary
2nd Place: County jail expansion
3rd Place: Roundabouts

Everyone deserves a second chance. However, when the person looking for the second chance is in charge of your child’s education, it’s not quite so obvious. When superintendent Bill Klaus attempted to get his retirement stipend early, the resulting controversy sucked money out the public pocketbook and into court costs. Needless to say when he was rehired for nearly the same salary, people had a few questions as to the sagacity of the council’s decision and subsequent use of public funds to pay him. Already making the rounds in conversations about stuff we don’t need to do, the county jail expansion became a hot issue that residents felt just didn’t need to be an added drain on already slim public funding. Seemingly out of the spotlight but apparently just as irksome, was the construction of roundabouts around town. – Aryn Widule