For all the folks concerned about their taxes increasing, rest at ease.

Rick Ketchum, finance committee chairman, said, “The county’s financial situation is better than it looks like on paper.” That’s “accounting-speak” for, I don’t have a clue. I believe Rita Crundwell made a similar assessment of Dixon’s finances. And this guy wants to be the board’s next chairman.

A professional county administrator, allowed to do his/her job, would provide a budget with cost-cutting measures to fix the deficit. Ketchum knows we have a dump; we have a dump until we don’t have a dump. Then Mr. Ketchum and the board will be long gone, and taxpayers will foot the bill for the ongoing excesses.