Lufter added, “The Waukesha County Board has already demonstrated, by a 28-4 vote after the 2000 census, that they are unwilling to support reducing the size of the Board, and County Executive Vrakas should promptly push for a public referendum on this issue if the current Board will not voluntarily agree to reduce its size to 19 part-time members.”The Waukesha Taxpayer's League is right. Reducing the size of the board will reduce the anonymity of its members increasing the public oversight of the board. We will not lose effective oversight of the county government as 19 members is more than enough to provide oversight. Instead of losing oversight, we'll reduce the potential for more members serving minor parochial interests and promoting special interests at the expense of the county. Yes, 19 members would be only a modest reduction in the county payroll. But it's a start, and an example to the rest of the county government.
The days of the horse and buggy are over. Instead of a far-flung county with slow means to transmit information, we have two super highways running through the county and various forms of mass communication. It is sheer silliness to imagine we will need more county supervisors than our much higher-populated neighbor to the east.
