The 3-month-old argument about how Hamilton County government is organized and who is allowed to do what broke out again last week.
Commissioner David Sharpe, D-Red Bank, urged his fellow commissioners to “join me in calling for swift action” to correct “the flaws in our current government.”
The second-term commissioner said he believes the commission needs a declaratory judgment to determine whether the state legislature’s 1941 Private Acts that created the previous county council form of government holds sway over any action taken since then.
If so, Sharpe said in June, the part-time, 11-member county commission would be given most of the power in carrying out the county government’s day-to-day functions.