Soon Outpost reporter Isabella Vanderheiden will have her usual wrap-up of this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, which is underway at the courthouse now.

But there is some breaking news, and that is that Supervisor Mike Wilson just pledged to stop using the odd phrase “with relationship to” quite as much as he currently does.

The announcement, which was accompanied by general laughter in the Board of Supervisor’s chambers, came after Wilson caught himself using the barely grammatical locution three times in the space of about a minute. 

The supervisor, in his apology, acknowledged that this particular verbal crutch had somehow become his version of “um,” and asked staff if it might be possible to rig some sort of buzzer when he erred in the future. 

Please see the edited video below, which includes a selection of some of the “with relationship to”s Wilson dropped in last week’s meeting alone. This is the sort of thing that will never happen again.

Montage: Andrew Goff

This story will be updated if necessary.