Representative says commission change bill ‘dead’

Baldwin County commissioners will try to break another 2-2 impasse on an issue this week, but the idea of changing their membership to an odd number is dead for now, a legislator said.

State Rep. Harry Shiver, R-Bay Minette, said that after hearing complaints from the public about several tie votes on the four-member commission, he had wanted to introduce local legislation to change the membership to five. Another commissioner would also represent fast-growing Baldwin better, he said.

But when the Baldwin delegation was deciding what local bills to support in this session, state Rep. Steve McMillan, R-Gulf Shores, and state Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Montrose, expressed opposition to changing the makeup of the board, Shiver said

Representative says commission change bill ‘dead’