Mark DeYoun
g again has been elected chairman of the Allegan County Board of Commissioners.
DeYoung, who represents Dorr and Leighton townships on the County Board, earned four votes to Commissioner Dean Kapenga’s three and Commissioner Don Black’s one. The election took place Jan. 15 at the board’s annual reorganizational meeting.
He will serve a two-year term because commissioners earlier agreed to make the chairmanship a two-year rather than one-year post.
DeYoung was first appointed to the board in February 2000 to succeed Ken Fein, who had died a month earlier. He won his first full two-year term on the board in the November general election of that year. He has been chairman since 2011.
PHOTO: Mark DeYoung
Congratulations to Mr. DeYoung. As long as Allegan County residents refuse to recognize any value of electing a bi-partisan government may Mr. DeYoung continue to lead the mono-partisan group with the sense of decorum that he’s exhibited in the past. (And I hope this endorsement from somebody well to the left of Adolph Hitler isn’t the ‘Kiss of Death’.)