Courthouse Hours Of Operation
Many complaints have been expressed about the difficulty of working citizens being able to get to the courthouse and conduct business with the current hours of operation. Current hours of operation are 8 to 4 with one hour for lunch, which means each employee is paid for forty hours while working only thirty-five hours each week. How does that serve the public and the taxpayers who fund the government?
This topic was first posted on 2/2/2006
posted by Allen Barrett | 11:14 AM
66 Comments:
If they want to help the people of the county, they should stay open until 6 a couple of days a week. If they do not want to do this, they could open for 4 hours on Saturday. This would still give them only 39 hours a week.
Believe the reduced hours were put into effect by Wakefield. Vanzant should direct the courthouse employees work hours go back to 40 hours each week. People who have to work our of county to even get a job have to take a half day to do any courthouse business. How did this county ever get into such a pickle for not providing the most basic services to its citizens.
I believe the hours were set when the courthouse was open until noon on Saturday. when the courthouse started closing on Saturday, the hours were not changed. the individual office hours are set by the department head not the county executive. if the county clerk's office hours are to be changed the county clerk will have to do it.
The courthouse and annex would better serve the people if it was open on Saturdays, and why cant it be?
The County Executive controls when and how the courthouse and annex are open and used. Almost every election
see promises of opening the courthouse on Saturday or later in the evening but then after the election everything goes back to business as usual. This is the worse county I have ever lived in for officials serving the people, everything is done for the convenience of the officials and to hell with the people
Split then.
I'd like to throw out a question for discussion. Who is legally liable for anonymous slanderous remarks made on this blog?
The person that makes them. Any anonymous post can be traced to a mac address on a computer. If you know an IT guy it isn't that hard to find out. The only problem is someone saying they weren't the one using the computer. It rarely holds up in court. Only if someone can prove that their reputation has been tarnished or they lose business due to defamation will they have a case. If someone already has a bad reputation, such as Barrett, nothing can be done. Laws have been put in place to protect the blog administrator. That is the only reason that all of the rediculous topics can be discussed.
8:31
So he gets away with this? Maybe in this life.
9:42 What I would like to know is how are you going to get by with your judging anyone else? You who are without sin, cast the first stone.
8:31 PM Its more complicated than having an IT person involved. Its virtually impossible to trace.
It is not as hard as you think 7:15, trust me.
9:42, he is not responsible for what other people say, he can be held accountable for the things he says.
7:12
There are those who tend to get away with hurting people and causing pain in this life, but there will be a day of reckoning for us all. In the end, nobody gets away with such mischief.
8:12 Good post. If everyone lived by the golden rule we would all be better off. I can not understand why people want to say and do things to hurt other people. It is so sad that people do not care about other peoples feelings. Sixty years ago people were more compassionate.
8:54
And the most pathetic of all those who do such hurtful things are the ones who claim to be in a close walk with God. What hypocrisy!
I understand Barrett has hurt people's feeling, but is it alright for others, like the people posting against him to hurt his feeling?
They will all pay for their mistakes when they meet God.
Has anyone ever heard the saying, "If you can't say anything good about anyone, keep mouth shut?" In this case it should keep keyboard off.
This post isn't to hit just one person, but everyone that has said anything not good about anyone on this Free Speech Blog.
Yep and what goes around comes around.
so watch out for the boggieman.
Did it ever occur to you simpletons that if people stopped doing such crooked, corrupt things Barrett would't be posting these topics.
Which is worse to expose the liars and thieves for what they are or just be quiet and continue being lied to and robbed? I for one believe that calling a person what they have proven to be isn't wrong it's just what they earned.
This topic in fact was more a survey than a complaint from the way I read the topic.
12:07
I would beg to differ with you. I believe this thread is designed to simply stir up unnecessary trouble. Why must you guys assume mthat everyone in elected office that you disapprove of is either a liar or a thief...or both? Where did that paranoia come from? I think you know the answer.
Never thought everyone in public office was a liar or thief, but you have to admit that with the large number in the state going to jail lately there has to be a lot.
2:53
Just the ones you guys disapprove of.
12:07 Great post, I agree . If nothing was wrong, nothing could be stirred up. Some think everyone should bury their head in the sand and keep our mouths shut and take everything that comes our way.
12:01 & 3:26 Good post and so true.
3:26
Jealousy, resentment, and envy are great motivators for keeping things stirred up in Giles County. We see it every single day, and the main players in all this are the few who share those feelings.
Is it true that one of the county depts.is hiring another employee? What position is open and has this position been filled? Just wondering if anyone has heard this lately. Nothing has been advertised in the paper that I have seen and with jobs so scarce it would be nice for those looking for a job to have the opportunity in order to work closer to home. Also was wondering if there is a county website that posts available job openings.
No job openings posted on line that I know of. If there is a job opening in the county it will have already been filled even though they might go through the requirement of listing in the paper. All jobs in county government are given to friends and family. Period.
3:12
All? Surely you've been drinking the kool-aid. Right?
I hear there is going to be a principal opening in Giles County. Has it been advertised?
3:53
Yes. It is advertised on the Goiles County Board of Education site.
Giles. Sorry for typo.
Show one person with a job in county government and I'll show you a direct connection by friend or family to Janet Vanzant or another department head.
8:34
Spewing again, I see.
Two or three employees already come to mind, but I will not reveal their names and give you guys people to attack or try to hurt in some way.
8:24
Pardon my saying so, but you just told a lie.
There is no 8:24 so how could they lie. If you are referring to 8:34 then you lied, so there.
8:34
Pardon my typo. And pardon my also saying that you lied.
I don't understand if they are paid for 40 hours why are they only there 35 hours and why are so many leaving early each day. Friday afternoon you can't find anybody at the annex.
8:54
That's simply not true. Please stop trying to stir up trouble.
9:13 Can you prove it's not true?
I thought 35 hours a week has been going on for years, long before Mrs. Vanzant was elected..
11:06
The statement I am referring to as untrue is that nobody can be found in the annex on Friday afternoon. I know for a fact that it's a lie.
If you are hired for a job and that job is 35 hours a week then you are paid to work 35 hours a week not 40 hours. I don't remember the courthouse being open any later. I do remember half Saturdays but I bet they rotated who worked those Saturday so that they still worked 35. If you call around you will see that is the norm. The state people that I know work those hours also. Stop saying they are paid to work 40 and only work 35. That is not true.
6:47
Thank you. Now maybe this little group will finally shut up about this.
If the job is only 35 hours a week that is less than 40 hour full time. We could save money because we do not have to offer benefits to part time employees.
In order to save you who disagree with me some time, I went ahead and added your pat responses to this post. Drank the koolaid, Is that WAB posting anonymously, Quit stirring up trouble...Did I miss any? One more thing...I DON'T like kool-aid.
Good for 7:47.
7:55
Jealousy, resentment, and hatred are powerful and quite destructive to the ones who hold those feelings about others. Please think about laying them aside.
Is there a way I can tell when a new post is put on the blog without having to leave my work and stay on the blog looking at it all day?
9:26
Quit work or retire.
Sure 9:26 get a job with the County in the courthouse.
6:47 Do you really believe that because other people are doing it that makes it right? Many a mama has told their kids just because so and so jumped off the bridge does that mean you should?
Taking money under false pretenses thief as much as if you held up the bank with a gun.
10:36 Exactly who are you calling the thief? Please leave your name and number so someone can get in touch with you to discuss where you got your information. Ok?
I have to agree with 10:36 taking money under false pretenses is the same as stealing. When a person is paid for forty hours they should be working forty. That's a problem with this country today people thinking they're owed things instead of earning things.
3:17
Exactly who do you think is making money under false pretenses? Don't you people have anything to do? Maybe you should vulunteer at county offices to make up the five hours you think they don't deserve? Just a thought. But would there be enough CAVE people to fulfill that move?
3:17 Good post.
Ya'll are missing the point. They were hired to work 35 and that is what they are working. Yes, 35 hours is still full time and it gets benefits. If they were hired to work 40 hours and they were not doing so that would be stealing but they were hired to work 35 hours and work by salary not hourly. No one is cheating anyone.
12:42
Thank you for an excellent post. Perhaps now the quarrelsome will stop trying to get something stirred up about this topic.
12:43 you are wrong many of the people were hired during the time when the courthouse was open on Saturday and they were required to work 40 full hours. Granted some came on later but should the citizens have to pay extra because the leaders are so wasteful?
If people are paid a salary and not by the hour why are some those in Emergency Management being paid for overtime?
7:31
Why don't you call the state and file a complaint then?
7:31 are you sure that the older employees were hired to work 40 hours? Is it possible when the courthouse was open on Saturdays that they did not take off part of the week? I have no idea about it, just asking. Did the entire crew work Saturdays or did they rotate Saturdays?
You can call the state if you want but since the ones I know work the same 35 hours a week I don't think you will get the answer you are looking for.
Emergency management used to be paid by the hour. I am not sure if that is true now or not. Just because you are salary does not mean that you cannot get overtime. You do not get paid 1 1/2 until after 40 hours though.
And why does the electric dept. take off so many days. You can't pay your bills or get anything done near before or after a holiday. They take off. I will voice my opinion to all that I have mentioned and if others would say something maybe they will start working on days they need to be open and be closed on the holiday. And yes I understand about the weekend being made up on Monday, but power company was closed on Friday and Monday.
By State law and supposedly Giles County personnel handbook, all salaried personnel are "exempt", that means that they do not acquire overtime pay. They are elegible for compensitory time only if the County Executive allows it.
Well I guess that answers the Emergency Management question in that Barry Whitt and the County Executive are as tight as ticks.
For the record, from the time of Bill Potts to today, the director of emergency management never was an hourly employee.
Is the Director of Emergency Management job the same one that Pierre Billard did as a volunteer for years?
To 4:23
You have to be joking!!!!!!
Billard work for free? No WAY; if you think that he was a volunteer your are nuts. I know that he received lots of kickbacks and money under the table. When he was in Emergency Management he got lots of money to buy all sorts of stuff. You think he really did that for FREE?? How do you think he got that SUV and all that equipment he had? AND, were did that equipment go when he was kicked out?
He is nothing more than a guy who is out for himself and no one else. He is not from here and he does not give a damn about the people in Giles county.
You and Barrett need to leave and let us alone.
Guilt always makes the guilty accuse others of their crimes.
Billard worked at no charge to the county so of course he must be a crook after all he wasn't born and raised here. Several thousand dollars of Emergency equipment was stolen by a former employee, they know who did it but are unwilling to prosecute but they do no wrong for after all they were born and raised here.
It's a sad situation that because of where you were born and raised determines your guilt or innocence instead of the evidence... only in Giles County.
7:53
I have a solution to your anger and bitterness. Hop a bus.
7:07 I have a solution to your anger and bitterness hop a sheep.
4:07
Why? I realize you are just trying to impress the other one or two on here, but that won't makke it.
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