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Our View: County needs to change fair manager position

For the third time in less than three years, the Great Northern Fairgrounds is without a manager.

Tim Solomon resigned in 2015 after 12 years in the position, amidst the board redesigning the fairgrounds manager job description.

Since then, the board has hired two fairgrounds managers, both of whom have since resigned — one who resigned after the fair board rescinded its firing him in an unannounced meeting the week before.

While the county looks at who will take the place of Bob Horne, who submitted in an email his resignation Wednesday, it also needs to look at the purpose of the fair manage...

 

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