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Conrad Lattes, an attorney for the open space department, told the Food and Agriculture Council, which took up the GMO issue in November, that residents could not force a referendum on their own. “If the county commissioners desired to put that question to the people in a referred measure, they could do that,” he said. “If they do not want to put that question to the voters, that issue could not be initiated by the citizens.” But some in the anti-GMO movement have resolved to make the planting of genetically engineered crops a platform issue for commissioner candidates next year. Two of the three county commissioner seats will be up in 2012.