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Jan
15
The Northwest Indiana Times calls the selection of Lake County Councilwoman Christine Cid as president a “disturbing ethical precedent” because she is a county employee and will now have inordinate power to protect jobs in her department from cutbacks at a time the Good Government Initiative suggests cutting back local government and an Indiana government reform report states that elected officials should not also be allowed to serve as government employees.
This brings us to the main reason Cid should not have been named council president: She is a county employee and, therefore, cannot help but make decisions that affect her own department.
That is a major ethical no-no, and the rest of the council didn’t prevent it.
Cid is a supervisor in the county clerk’s office, overseeing operations in the East Chicago branch. It is difficult to imagine her being able to recommend eliminating her employees’ jobs — and possibly her own — as part of a reasonable decision to consolidate operations in Crown Point.
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