The subject under discussion by Attorney Bill Hanson and Pima County Supervisor Mikey Boyd is the series of meetings held before the GOP troika, of which Boyd was a member, took power on the Board of Supervisors in January, 1993. This excerpt is taken from a court transcript resulting from a suit by upper-level county employees needlessly fired by Boyd, Ed Moore and Paul "Dim Bulb" Marsh.
As usual, Mikey's memory is poor. Here, he's trying to recall a meeting at the Viscount Hotel:
Q: How did the meeting get set up?
BOYD: I think one of those three people, private citizens, asked that we attend it.
Q: Do you have a recollection of who that was?
BOYD: No, I don't.
Q: Were you asked personally by one of those three citizens to attend this meeting?
BOYD: I don't recall. I don't remember how I got invited to it.
Q: Tell me, if you can, what you recall.
BOYD: I think all three described what they thought would be some of Pima County's most pressing needs.
Q: For instance?
BOYD: Chris Monson in particular has a master's in public administration. He was very interested in a mentorship program, trying to talk to whoever we ended up hiring as the county manager, to try to urge them to have some type of mentorship program so UA public administration graduates could get started in county government and work their way up.
Q: Mr. Boyd, have you and Mr. Monson talked about this lawsuit since it was filed and served on you?
BOYD: No I haven't. No, we haven't.
Q: Do you remember anything else about what Mr. Monson said?
BOYD: No, I can't recall.
Q: Do you remember anything said by any of the other people in attendance at that meeting?
BOYD: No. It was Mr. Monson's talk that had the biggest effect on me, the biggest impression.
Q: Did you like the mentorship concept?
BOYD: Sure, I thought it was a great idea.
Q: What, if anything, has been done to implement that?
BOYD: Nothing, to my knowledge.
Mikey says Monson's request left a big impression. Yet a year and half later, he has no idea what happened to the idea that made the impression. But it gets worse: Under the prior regime of County Manager Enrique Serna, Pima County had an intern program with the University of Arizona, and it was abandoned after Boyd and company took over.
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