By Scott Orr
The Daily Courier
PRESCOTT – “Here, let me get that,” Carol Springer said, shutting the door on the sounds of remodeling. Crews are busy turning the third-floor offices into space for the expanded five-member Board of Supervisors, and plastic sheeting is everywhere.
Springer will not be around to see the results. She’s retiring after two terms on the board and over two decades in politics.
She had just come upstairs from the swearing-in ceremony, where she sat in the back row and watched as two of her colleagues, Tom Thurman and Chip Davis, began new terms, and three new supervisors prepared to join the board.
Thurman, who roasted her at a retirement party last week, and who was first elected to the board along with Springer in 2005, said she’d had “An unbelievable lifespan of public service.
“We’re going to lose a great asset for her not being in public office,” he said.
But Springer seems to have no regrets about her decision to retire.
“I think you know when it’s time for you to go, and it’s time for me to go,” she said. “My time has passed now.”
