“Eliminating the Administrator’s Update and comments from Commissioners, and suggesting during the meeting that an ‘open-ended discussion… is best handled outside the board room…’ is a unilateral rejection of Ottawa Impact’s Contract with Ottawa County and an encouragement, on record, to subvert the Open Meetings Act.”

“I ran on the values of government transparency and accountability and respect for parental rights. At the time, these same values appeared to be aligned with the Ottawa Impact PAC. Unfortunately, some of the PAC’s leaders, who now lead the County Commission, have not acted in strict accordance with some of these values.”

“It’s one thing to correct our own minutes and our own resolutions but I believe it’s crossing the line to try to correct a prior commissions. I think if we are upset with who is chosen to be our health officer for us in Ms. Hambley, we can address that going forward,”

- Commissioner Jacob Bonnema of District 4