If Chief Goes, So Should Board

* Re “Mittermeier Faces Job Review,” (April 4):

So County Executive Officer Jan Mittermeier secretly interviewed for a new position elsewhere?

That’s no different from a million other people in Orange County, from clerk-typist to CEO. Particularly when challenged to work for a Board of Supervisors that has demonstrated its ineptness at every turn.

Her competence, not theirs, is what contributed to Orange County’s early recovery from bankruptcy, saving us multiple millions of dollars.

If the board terminates her, the package should include a bonus of 1% of that savings. And it should include five resignations--the supervisors--for incompetence.

Absent that, perhaps we need a law requiring supervisors to spend four of every five working days out of the U.S., extolling the virtues of our county to foreign investors.

And they can’t do official business while beyond the county line.

I’ll vote for that.

VAN C. ELLIOTT

Fullerton