The Amador County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to waive fees for the Fiddletown Fiddlers Jam coming up in a couple of weeks. The item was brought back for reconsideration by District 5 Supervisor Brian Oneto, who at a previous meeting had agreed to pay the county encroachment fees of 620 dollars out of his discretionary funds. Oneto on Tuesday said that since the Fiddlers Jam was held as a fund-raiser for the Fiddletown Community Center, he believed the county should instead waive the fees, saying he did not believe the county should be charging the event’s organizers. District 3 Supervisor Ted Novelli asked Oneto where he thought the appropriation payment should come from. Oneto said Public Work should pay it. Larry Peterson of Amador Public Works said the fee is based on a nexus study, noting, “in this case, the community benefit is clear.” He said maybe the board would consider asking the Fiddlers Jam organizers to invest the fees into signs or equipment they needed. Dan Slater of the Fiddletown Community Center told the board that his group was ready and willing to continue renting signs for the Jam, as they had done in previous years. Oneto said he would like to see the fees waived. District 4 Supervisor Louis Boitano said “there are lots of roads in the county where 600 dollars in cold patch will fill a lot of holes.” He said if Supervisors take that money out of the roads budget, and “2 or 3 of those more amounts to some pretty good money.” Novelli said he would pay the fee out of his discretionary recreation fund. Oneto said “if it comes from anybody’s recreation fund, I would ask that it came from mine.” District 1 Supervisor Richard Escamilla agreed, saying “I’ll chip in with Ted if it comes to that.” District 2 Board Chairman Richard Forster said he would also put in 100 or 150 dollars. Oneto said “OK, I’ll work with that,” and the board voted 4-1 to waive the fees and pay from their recreation funds, with Boitano voting against the action.