But little has gone smoothly in commission offices since that re-election.
Commissioner Casey Miller has been
banned from commission offices since last September, the county’s
first administrator resigned in February after 2½ years on the job and
Commissioner Kaety Jacobson quit in frustration that same month with two years left in her term.
Hall and county counsel Kristin Yuille have since divvied up administrator duties and have been in a
constant battle with district attorney Jenna Wallace over a host of
personnel issues.
All that had led to commission meetings experiencing more critical comments and grievances from the public, county employees and other county elected officials, which
led Hall to propose in May to limit public comments to only agenda topics.
In June, Christine Hutchins of Seal Rock used the public comment period to attempt to relay disparaging comments that she said Yuille shared privately with her. As chair, Hall cut her off and later
issued an exclusion notice that barred Hutchins from attending meetings for 180 days for breaking the commission’s rules against slander.