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County Chair Joanne Voorhees called the meeting to order at 6:01 PM.  The first order of business, approving the January meeting's minutes, was dispatched quickly and with the committee's usual efficiency.  Chairwoman Voorhees recognized all of the elected officials in attendance and then gave the floor to Terri Lynn Land, the current Secretary of State and 2010 gubernatorial candidate.

Secretary Land stated that she is a fiscal conservative, and will run on a platform of fiscal responsibility and limited, more responsive government.  She pointed out that she has been practicing these principles in her current position by reducing her department's staff only through attrition and consolidating services statewide (closing unnecessary offices in the process).  Her stated goal is to have every single SOS branch office completely modernized by the end of her current term.  While there is no one "silver bullet" that will solve Michigan's economic problems, Land said that she will start by recommending the termination of unnecessary, unneeded programs (specifically not touching good programs that work) instead of across-the-board cuts that do not discriminate between useful and useless government expenditures.

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It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the news that the Matriarch of the local GOP, Bee Isseldhardt, passed away on Friday evening at the age of 96.  Bee is survived by her grandson, Robb Riesch, great grandson Jimmy Riesch and son-in-law Lyle Morrison.