Jackson to Chair County Commission Next Year

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Bobby Jackson will chair the Lewis County commission in 2019, continuing the standard yearly  rotation of the board’s leadership positions.

Representing District 2, Jackson will replace Edna Fund as chair of the commission. Commissioner-elect Gary Stamper will be the vice chair (Stamper has resigned for the last month of his first term, but will take office again in January for a second term).

“As we always do, we rotate,” Fund said, before she and Jackson voted to make the roles official.

Jackson did not weigh in on his new role.

“I have no comment on anything today,” he said, when addressed by The Chronicle before the commission’s legislative meeting.



Jackson has faced criticism and tough questions recently, following the disclosure that Twin Transit — on whose board he serves — pushed for countywide bus expansion using the false narrative that Lewis Mountain Highway Transit would be shut down if its routes were not absorbed by Twin Transit.

Now that it’s clear that LMHT will continue to operate, Jackson and others who pushed for expansion have maintained they were in the dark that the grant requirements said to be responsible for its demise had changed long before the expansion campaign.

Twin Transit is holding a special meeting at Chehalis City Hall Thursday to address the issue.