DARLINGTON - Lafayette County District 3 voters will head to ballot booths Aug. 2 to decide the fate of their county chairman, Jack Sauer.
Sauer is facing a recall vote, following a successful petition effort by a citizens' group Lafayette County Taxpayers for Positive Change.
The recall election includes the Town of Seymour, the Town of Kendall and Ward 1 in the Town of Darlington.
Challenging Sauer will be George Hirsbrunner, a resident of the Town of Darlington, Ward 1. Hirsbrunner and Sauer could not be reached for comment and did not return messages left at their homes before deadline.
According to the petition, the group wanted Sauer recalled, because they say Sauer has shown "inappropriate and unprofessional actions in Lafayette County committee meetings" and he "continues to support county department head whose decisions are sending county dollars out of the area."
County Clerk Linda Bawden said the recall election would cost about $2,000 to cover publications, machine coding, paper ballots and poll workers.
But Mary Larson, a member of the petition organization believes the money the county would save without Sauer's leadership would more than return that amount.
Sauer, chairman of the county board of supervisors, won his most recent election 164 to 140 in April 2010 against Ray Elgin, husband to Eileen Elgin, the petitioner.
The groups filed their Statement of Intent to Circulate Recall Petition and the Campaign Registration Statement for the group on May 5. They had 60 days to get 106 signatures on the petition, based on 25 percent of the 422 voters in the November election. On June 3, Elgin, Larson and Barbara Brown submitted 114 signatures to the county clerk office.
The group said last month it had a candidate, Larry Leahy from the Town of Kendall, who would stepped forward to challenge Sauer. Leahy has since declined, citing family obligations as the reason for not running at this time, according to Larson.
Larson said Hirsbrunner came forward and filed papers, "all on his own."
Sauer is facing a recall vote, following a successful petition effort by a citizens' group Lafayette County Taxpayers for Positive Change.
The recall election includes the Town of Seymour, the Town of Kendall and Ward 1 in the Town of Darlington.
Challenging Sauer will be George Hirsbrunner, a resident of the Town of Darlington, Ward 1. Hirsbrunner and Sauer could not be reached for comment and did not return messages left at their homes before deadline.
According to the petition, the group wanted Sauer recalled, because they say Sauer has shown "inappropriate and unprofessional actions in Lafayette County committee meetings" and he "continues to support county department head whose decisions are sending county dollars out of the area."
County Clerk Linda Bawden said the recall election would cost about $2,000 to cover publications, machine coding, paper ballots and poll workers.
But Mary Larson, a member of the petition organization believes the money the county would save without Sauer's leadership would more than return that amount.
Sauer, chairman of the county board of supervisors, won his most recent election 164 to 140 in April 2010 against Ray Elgin, husband to Eileen Elgin, the petitioner.
The groups filed their Statement of Intent to Circulate Recall Petition and the Campaign Registration Statement for the group on May 5. They had 60 days to get 106 signatures on the petition, based on 25 percent of the 422 voters in the November election. On June 3, Elgin, Larson and Barbara Brown submitted 114 signatures to the county clerk office.
The group said last month it had a candidate, Larry Leahy from the Town of Kendall, who would stepped forward to challenge Sauer. Leahy has since declined, citing family obligations as the reason for not running at this time, according to Larson.
Larson said Hirsbrunner came forward and filed papers, "all on his own."