Dear Editor:
On the 13th of October, I was fixing fence when Moody County Commissioner Doyle drove up and walked over to me. He started a conversation about the construction of the bridge on the Ward road. He says, “I didn’t think they were going to finish the bridge.” I said, “If you commissioners would be doing your job, you would have known what was going on in the county.”
I asked him why the tax-payer’s money was paying for a part time employee, as in the commissioner’s free ride for health care. He became upset and had no answer.
The next question I asked was, “Who oversees the whole Moody County maintenance crew?” His answer was Marc Blum. I told him he didn’t answer my question of who oversees the whole Moody County road crews. His response was that no one does. Then I asked, “Why did the removal of the bridge on the Riverview Township road East of Ron Teal’s address on 475th Ave in Aurora, SD take place on the 17th of September 2018?”

The answer I received was that he didn’t know. The culvert has not been finished. The crew left and did not have this work done as of October 15, 2018. As a taxpayer, we could be served much better by leaving the bridge on this road alone until the river bridge on the Ward road was completed. Having both bridges out is an inconvenience for many. The river bridge is the shortest way for people who use it every day to get around for work and also for the safety for the county. If there is road construction that is needed to be done, we should be hiring a company that has the knowledge of road construction as well as one that will start and finish the work in a timely matter.
I also asked, “Why did the county create a new commissioner assistant position to do the job that the commissioners were elected to do? This person has to do the dirty work taking concerns and complaints from the community that the commissioners will not do.”
Again, no answer was given. Our taxes are being wasted with this commissioner not being connected to what is going on.
Another concern I have is that Commissioner Doyle is not connected to the care of the community but instead only to what is beneficial to him. The job of a commissioner is to serve the people of the community, not to serve yourself.
Moody County residents, I wish you the best in the future.
Dave Larson
Rural Moody County