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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who believes that an unelected, legislatively appointed position should control its own police force?

The idea that this is a power grab lacks an understanding that the current arrangement provides for extremely inappropriate and unaccountable power.[/quote]

Evidently [u]not[/u] unaccountable, eh?

As for police forces controlled by unelected, legislatively appointed positions, how about the US Park Police, the US Postal Police, the US National Zoological Park Police, the Amtrak Police, the US Federal Reserve Police,...[/quote]
You don’t know that there is a democratically elected president of the United States? Seriously?[/quote]

There's also a democratically elected county executive and an an eleven-member democratically elected county council.[/quote]
You don’t understand who appoints the members of the Planning Board. They are directly appointed by the Council and the Council is responsible for oversight. It has little, if anything to do with the County Executive.

It was a legislative branch agency initially formed to facilitate corruption for development companies 100 years ago. The oversight structure clearly does not work. And it has powers that it should not have that should be the domain of the government executive branch of government.

There is no reason for Parks and Park Police need to be controlled by this organization and you would be hard pressed to find such an arrangement anywhere else in the country. This is obvious stuff.

In addition, the County Executive should also have sole power to appoint at the very least the Board chair.

If anyone wonders why the MoCo economy and development is so messed up it starts and stops with the Planning Board and MNCPPC. They have and continue to fail and the structure and lack of accountability are a big part of that. [/quote]

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