During the Jan. 10 Baldwin County Commission work session, County Administrator Ron Cink called the commissioners’ attention to an issue that Cink said “hasn’t gotten a lot of attention”: county board appointments.

Cink said when he came on as administrator, he noticed that some of the county’s boards were comprised of members that may have moved away from Baldwin County or, in some cases, may be dead.

“A lot of boards that aren’t really active at all were what we were looking at, so some of the members identified have members that may have moved out of the county or have passed away,” Cink said. “There are four different boards I’m asking about right now, and I’ve asked our attorney to see what we need to do to eliminate some of those.”

In some of the cases, entire boards were filled with people whose terms had expired years ago.

Commissioner Tucker Dorsey said because some of these board had not met in years, there may have been lack of oversight from previous commissions for them.

“There are some board positions that are still in place from as far back as 1996, and perhaps some of those people may have experienced some health issues since then,” Dorsey said.

In one example, the six members of the Baldwin County Animal Shelter Board of Trustees are still technically serving on terms that expired in Sept. 1996.

The Baldwin County Housing Authority has a seat that was vacated by death that has been open since July 1998.

One of the members currently named to the Baldwin County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board - Huey A. Mack Sr. - is deceased.

“Obviously, these are not active boards and some of them may be boards we don’t necessarily have a need for anymore,” Cink said. “I just wanted the commission to be aware of this and know that we will likely be bringing some proposals forward to address some of these issues.”