(Update: Adding Video, Commissioners' decision, comments from commissioners, OSU-Cascades political science professor)
Commissioners determine expense not worth it for single ballot measure
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- On the agenda at Monday afternoon's Deschutes County Board of Commissioner's meeting: non-partisanship.
The three commissioners, including a newcomer who raised the issue, are looking toward the future, when one day their seats might not be affiliated with a political party.
“We have the opportunity to make running for office, a simpler, shorter and less expensive process,” Commissioner Phil Chang, a Democrat, said.
Chang, the newest member of the board, campaigned on making the position of county commissioner non-partisan last November.