THURSDAY Night is the next Board of Supervisors Meeting!! PLEASE plan on attending it is only with vigilance that we will see a change in how our county is being run. When very few citizens show up at the meetings the board gets the impression that either folks don’t care or more mistakenly that everything is going along well and they are doing a great job. Guess what??? Things are not running smoothly and all the board is NOT doing a great job.
We MUST keep the pressure on each and every one of our representatives to do what is in OUR best interest.
At the last public budget meeting last week there were ONLY 2 CITIZENS in the audience. You missed the promise to not increase taxes which was what they wanted everyone to hear but you also missed what services were going to be cut and which organizations and services were getting an increase. There was a lengthy discussion about the Improvement Association and Chairman Tyler actually gave a decent explanation as to what their services were and how they leveraged funds to help those folks in need. It’s hard to say anything against an organization that is established to help folks that are down and to assist the children of these families. Just because they do good does NOT indicate that they should work under a cone of silence. I did ask during citizens’ comments if it was right that both Tyler and Caple vote on a budget with funds being allocated to an organization they benefit from. I was quickly told that the County has a ruling by the Attorney general stating that it was NOT a conflict of interest for Tyler as CEO of the Association to vote on related issues. And furthermore Caple as the Chairman of the Board is not paid by the Association so it was not an issue. Well my question is still even though you have a legal right sometimes it’s not always the best thing to do and the appearance of improprieties would not be raised. It's still hard to believe that an organization with almost a 3 million dollar budget spends nearly 50% in salaries .
I will be missing the meeting so PLEASE ATTEND and see/hear for yourself. I will try and get some notes from others who do attend and post them shortly after the meeting Thursday night.
Will Sherriff Bell have to issue another warning? Will the county PAY THEIR OUTSTANDING BILLS? Will any significant issues be voted on without a 3-3 tie? WILL WE EVER GET AN ASSISTANT CHAIR? Who knows??? You'll know IF you attend the meeting Thursday night!
I wish the board would stop letting people of the County use County equipment at there personal houses ,I have sent them pictures of people of county using Zero turn mowers at there houses to mow there lawns and dump trucks to haul dirt or flowers to there houses , I have seen them bring home high pressure washers to clean there houses year after year , We the tax payer flips the bill ,If it brakes we fix it ,we pay for gas ,is use of our equipment in there contract .I hope not .If we need this stuff we rent it or buy it ,I have sent board members pictures they don't care ,some of the people using the county stuff have way more money than we do , Some of the people have county cars we pay for and they use them to go grocery shopping ,I seen them let there kids drive them ,Wait till the get in a car accident ,The county will get sued . Its not right none of us have money but our county is wasting a lot of our money ,To me its steeling from the tax payer
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