Commissioners squabble about correspondence

A typically congenial commissioners? roundtable with staff turned tense Thursday when officials squabbled about correspondence with legislators.

“Justremember that three commissioners were elected,” Commissioner Dean Minnich told Commissioner Michael Zimmer, who wrote a letter to Sen. Larry Haines, R-Carroll and Baltimore Counties, breaking from the practice of past boards that sent correspondence as a group, not as individuals. “You need to catch up and know what we are talking about.”