Bayview Still Fired Up

Approximately 50 people packed into a mobile home - the offices of the Bayview Water and Sewer District — for the swearing in of new board members Tuesday. Temperatures and tempers rose quickly inside as May 19 election winners Sharon K. Meyer and Stephen May were sworn in — but not election loser Chuck Murray. Some district board members had planned to swear in Murray to fill the vacancy created by board chairman Chuck Waller’s death on July 4. Numerous district customers were in an uproar over the board’s selection of Murray during a July 8 “emergency meeting” to the five-member governing board. District residents believed Meyer and May should have had some say in who should replace Waller/ David Cole , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: What power does a water and sewer district board member have that would get the community so riled up re: an appointment?