Much of the current effort is to search and analyize information on the viability of cutting a coastal county out of Lane County.   To compare the proposed Siuslaw County, requires obtaining the information from Lane County of its operations.   Lane County spends a great deal of manhours to avoid answering inquiries anor provide records.   Case in point; the Lane Code and Lane Manual are available on its web site while not their Administrative Procedures Manual.   After spending an estimated 10 manhours explaining why it did not exist, then was not available, and finally would be expensive to provide; the County finally admitted it was located in a computer directory and spent the 10 minutes needed to provide it as originally requested.   To the question of what information is maintained on county workers regarding their compensation such as "LastName" and "PERS", the response has been that any such information if it exists at all is proprietary and thus will not be divulged.   If you want to regain control of your county, get involved and consider also assisting in creating a new break-off coastal county.

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