District Attorney Michael Povich said jail construction, along with several in-house departmental issues, such as the assembling of the 2000 budget and the purchase of the courthouse annex, have all contributed to an atmosphere that is high on stress. For example, elected officials cannot be fired, so individuals must work with each other sometimes closely even when there are personality conflicts. The commissioners might think that the department heads are transgressing on their grounds, and vice versa. When you don t sit down and talk in a nonconfrontational way, you start distressing each other and you start assigning motives. Right now, the state of distress has reached the level that people don t believe they have the same interests the best interests of the county in heart.
Emotions are pretty high and, no question, there is stress in the air.
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