What Does Barry Witt Do?
This topic was called in by a reader and appears as stated by the caller.
I have been to a number of meetings where Mr Witt attends along with his assistant. Since the assistant always answers the questions and seems to be more up to date on subjects what is Mr. Witt's specific job, not his title.
A few years ago Mr. Billard did the job of emergency management director as a volunteer, no cost to the county. When he was forced out and replaced by Mr. Witt there was a salary, benefits and a vehicle given to him, then an assistant with another salary and benefits. How could that position go from one volunteer to two employees with vehicle. Does anybody know what Mr. Witt does since Jeremy seems to be doing all the work, explaining about regulations etc?
I have been to a number of meetings where Mr Witt attends along with his assistant. Since the assistant always answers the questions and seems to be more up to date on subjects what is Mr. Witt's specific job, not his title.
A few years ago Mr. Billard did the job of emergency management director as a volunteer, no cost to the county. When he was forced out and replaced by Mr. Witt there was a salary, benefits and a vehicle given to him, then an assistant with another salary and benefits. How could that position go from one volunteer to two employees with vehicle. Does anybody know what Mr. Witt does since Jeremy seems to be doing all the work, explaining about regulations etc?
posted by Allen Barrett | 4:21 PM
110 Comments:
Why don't you call and ask Barry?
cg, just has to have something he thinks is smart to say.
Barrett was asked to post this thread.
Get over your dislike for WAB.
Now you've said your call and ask so go for your move away.
It does seem funny to me at one time it was volunteer, then went to paying two people to do the job. that is nothing against Barry Witt, but commissioners an zanvant.
What about the new big truck that was just bought? With all the needed budget cuts where did the money come from to buy it? Why was it needed?
If everybody that wanted to know something called, they would never get anything done but answer the phone.
If one person found out and told the rest on the blog would be better.
Who knows someone just might know.
I didn't know the job was once volunteer. Guess that is what they wanted most citizens to know nothing about what goes on.
Do you mean that the position used to be volunteer but now Witt makes 42,000 and Holly makes 30,000 are those people insane no wonder we don't have any money and they keep wanting more.
I didn't mean Holly and Witt are insane just those who are paying them so much.
Call and ask him and then move.
Just do Giles County a huge favor and take some of the troublemakers with you.
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Barrett has to start a new thread so the lonely gossips will have something to do.
Enjoy.
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Looks like the enabler is upset again that somebody is picking on his government officials. By the way hasn't Barrett offered to put topics up from anyone?
While I believe Barrett is the biggest troublemaker this county has ever seen, I find the 10:14 post disgusting. I wonder if it will be deleted?
Just a simple question ..... Did not Janet Vanzant insist that Barry Whitt receive overtime pay? She wanted him to receive $12,000.00 but the County Commission reduced that to $6,000.00
WHY?
Is not Mr. Whitt a salaried, department supervisor? Since wgen do salaried employees receive overtime pay?
Only in Giles County.
6:53 You wonder if 10:14 will be deleted, but you must think the post of 8:45 post is alright?
8:32
Buty would that post have been deleted had it been directed at one of the usual victims of this blog? Your thoughts on that?
Does not anyone have a comment regarding why Mr. Whitt received overtime pay? Why not pay Mr. Griggs, Mr. Hayatt, and Sheriff Helton overtime pay???
I would call Mrs. Vanzant and ask her. Better yet, call your commissioners. That's the way our government is set up.
8-53 Err...did you croaky cretins notice that Mr. Barrett DIDN'T start this topic ?? You must be a graduate of Giles Co skules.
Take time to read the caption before you open your undies so wide
Someone else phoned in the topic. All Mr. B did was to courteously publish it. Then it received the customary Giles County greeting that appears to have become standard over the last two hundred years of inbreeding.
8:47
If all this offends you, may I make a suggestion? Hop a bus back to wherever you came from. Ooops; I used a preposition at the end of a sentence.
Courteously? What a laugh!
Why call Janet Vanzant when she is either not in the office, not available to speak to anyone; or will tell you "it is none of your business"?
As for the Commissioners, they did not realize that Mr. Whitt was salaried. Mrs. Vanzant neglected to mention that small fact when demending Mr. Whitt be paid overtime.
9:01
What would you suggest? Perhaps storming Mrs. Vanzant's office and dragging her into the streets? How about pillar and stocks on the square for her along with certain commissioners you don't like? That would include all 7th District commissioners, along with Barry Whitt, Roger Strickland, the ENTIRE election commission, Roy Griggs, and others, right? And there are other victims of the hatred and jealousy.
WOW
CG you finally have come up with a pretty good idea!!!!
WAY TO GO!!!!!!!
I hate it when my posts get deleted. I just wanted to identify other possible candidates for the position that 8/21 8:45 PM said that Mr. Barrett held.
Oh cg, you are definitely a product of the Gile County School System. There is no rule against ending a sentence with a preposition. I'm sure you won't admit you are wrong, so I took a quote from one of many sites debunking this myth.
Misconception: A sentence must not end in a preposition. It is a myth that it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition.[3][4][5] Mignon Fogarty ("Grammar Girl") says, "nearly all grammarians agree that it's fine to end sentences with prepositions, at least in some cases."[6] Fowler's Modern English Usage says that "One of the most persistent myths about prepositions in English is that they properly belong before the word or words they govern and should not be placed at the end of a clause or sentence."
Seems like you would check on some of this stuff before you submitted and proved yourself, once again, a fool. Pitiful cg.
I would like to know what his job is exactly....I remember when it was done by mr. Billard as a volunteer. As a taxpayer I would like questions to those answers, and why are you bloggers suggesting that citizens that pay taxes just hop a bus and leave town. How rude, not exactly the professional demeanor a public servant should have. Asking questions is so key to good government, I am with the original caller....
cg if you don't like these post why don't you hope a bus? I doubt you will be missed.
12:23 Telling people to move or hop a bus isn't very Christian like either and I thought cg claimed to be a Christian.
I just read in the local paper about the budget and wonder why the tax payers have to continue funding the dead animal disposal when every other industry has to pay for the disposal of their waste products that come from normal daily operations. That is part of the cost of doing business.
They state agriculture is the number one industry in Giles County so why can those in the industry not pay their own operating expenses? Since you have 1000 farmers using the service it is my opinion those 1000 farms can pay their own way or find another industry if paying for normal operating expenses are too much for them. These farms are businesses and should not be given hand outs or any benefits from our tax dollars that are not extended to any other business, industry or citizen. We as tax payers can not afford to pay any part of the largest industries operating costs. we the people do not have the money but I am sure our commissioners will find away to get it in the budget.
1:12
I do "hope" a bus comes and gets you...one way of course. There's nom reason for someone who is as unhappy as you seem to be to stay here. Believe me, you will be missed if you do, but what about doing us a favor? Take some of the other troublemakers with you.
Glad you decided to leave again 3:18. I hope you keep your word this time. Don't bother visiting you will not be missed but thank you for moving and making Giles County a more beautiful place with one less trouble maker and enabler of wrong doing.
3:26 I found your post funny. If the enabler had said she was leaving it would be just like her saying she wasn't going to post again, she would change her mind.
The enabler seems to be the unhappy one here. People just want stop talking about her officials. Makes her so unhappy.
3:26 aka 3:51
You just can't help promoting that lie Barrett told about one enabling wrong when, in relity, you are enabling his lie. What a joke you and Barrett are.
So, in this fine continuing display of edumacated Giles countians perspicacity and wit , has anyone yet discovered exactly WHAT it is that Whitt does to earn his salary?
Or is that to remain shrouded in 200 years of experience too ??
Yep, 7:16, the double c-note gang at work again. It appears cg is the leader or at least on someone's payroll to keep the comments derailed. Why, can't have the people staying on topic, can we? Might get answers to some of our questions, and that would be a bad thing for the county. I mean, wouldn't it?
FYI, your wonderful elected officals and those in charge of everything great and small in Giles County wanted all of the so-called trouble makers here. Do you not remember them wanting to make our county a REIREMENT COMMUNITY. Well wake up people, they are retired and they do not have anything else to do but stir up trouble. They don't have children and grandchildren to have to take care of (or they choose not to.) They move here on purpose to get away from their families. Everyone else (younger people and those from here) are at the ballpark or taking their kids to birthday parties all the time.
So thank Janet, the Commissioners, Dan, the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism for all of these people who moved here to your beloved Giles County. The Charter might have given way to a most needed change here. You all should be very happy, everyone got what they wanted. No charter and a retirement community. Way to go Giles County Citizens, you've set
all us back another 200 years.
As with most other county employees there is no job description for Mr. Witt, he makes his own.
Most of the non elected county employees have no formal job description and are very seldom ever given a formal evaluation that is placed in their personnel files.
Like most other things in county government this is handled with a knee jerk reaction instead of planning.
No job description.
No evaluation.
Pay for Overtime, even though he is a salaried Department head, in charge of a Department budget.
Sounds like "this is the way we have always done it for the past 200 years"
By the way ???????
Is Barry Whitt a commissioned law enforcement officer? Is he sworn in by the County Sheriff? If not why is he allowed to carry a gun on duty????
I guess that makes him a very big man with a badge and gun.
9:35
hy don't you call and discuss your concerns with Barry? Would that not be better than stirring up trouble?
CG ... Ya gots to be jokeing????? That's your stock answer for everyone; why? because you are as ignorant as a rock.
1st what is the number for Barry's autobody shop? He is there most of the time. And he is never in the EMA office. Jerremy is in the EMA office and I won't call him because he is the only one who really works and I do not want to embarrise him.
Actually my concerns are ablout Barry's boss Janet Parker Vanzant.
Oh Yeah ... Why don't I call her and discuss my concerns with her. We have been through that already.
I am still waiting for her to call back on a previous issue.
11:51
Then why don't you list your phone number so Barry can call you?
931-363-5300
What did the man that volunteered do? That will give me an idea what Mr. Witt should be doing.
I thought if you was on a salary you didn't get paid overtime. If you do is there anyway I can go back and get paid for the many hours I worked more than 40 hours a week?
Why don't you call Barry and ask him what he does, if you are so concerned?
call, move, hop a bus. Do you know anything else?
Looks like somebody needs a job or hobby.
Oh you have a hobby, posting.
Hi CG bet you are having fun??????
4:20
Any of those things mentioned would seem a solution to your unhappiness. Even a job or a hobby would help. However, my recommendation would be that anyone as unhappy as you seem to be hop a bus and move far away and never come back to this cesspool of corruption and good ole boy politics. Why be mmiserable? Life is too short.
7:19
Thank you for admitting to Giles County what smart citizens have realized, that it is a cesspool of corruption and good ole boy politics. We all know that is what you enable. Not every one has the cowardly mentality like you to run away from corruption or go along with it. Any one with a back bone would choose to stay and fight that type of behavior and make their home a more suitable place to live. That is the difference in a good citizen and some one like you. If any one needs to hop a bus and never come back it is you and your corrupt good ole boys and girls.
But why do you read this blog since many of the honorable citizens posts offend you? Don't worry about answering because I don't care, I know you just read the blog to post hatred and nonsense.
8:27
You continue to promote a lie. And the troublemaking just goes on and on.
Giles County used to be a wonderful place to live and raise our children before a few people decided they wanted to run things and tell us how we ought to act and think. It's not working out for you guys, and that's what you can't stand. WE THE PEOPLE have spoken loud and clear about that.
Pick up a hammer and help us rebuild our wonderful county and stop being a part of the non-existent group who seek to tear it down and change everytghing to suit them.
everything!
Are you an English teacher now?
8:52
I was born and raised in Giles County and what you state is an absolute lie. There have always been problems here as well as groups of people that feel they are entitled to more than the regular citizens. I know many if not the majority of our teenagers dream of leaving this county because of the attitude of the older people and the lack of opportunities. They know they will never get a good paying job because they are not related to the right people. These are conversations I had with many of my friends before leaving for college. I still here the same complaints from teenagers today in this county. Many have stated that the Giles County does not want young people here.
I have been all over this state and I know for a fact Giles County is a joke to the rest of Tennessee and has been for over 25 years. It is viewed as a red-necked, bigoted ass-backward area. Worst things have been said and I use to defend Giles County but as I got older and see the order of things I no longer defend Giles County from those charges, as I see that attitude, but I do try to work to change that attitude. It is because of people like you who enable the wrongful behavior that gives us such a bad image in the eyes of many of our citizens and outside world. So as a native born and raised here in Giles County I know you to be a liar and an enabler of wrong doing.
2:17
Stop promoting that lie. It's just not true. I despise the retirement center concept and would like nothing better than to see Dan Speer sent on his merry way. Just stop lying about that.
2:17 Do you really "here" those bad things about Giles County or is that just your opinion. I am thankful the Magnetti people do not "here" the same things.
I am sorry someone HERE must have hurt you very badly.
3:04
I'll put it to you this way. I am not the enabler so I do not lie to make points. I stand by my statements as those are my experiences and how many of my friends and I felt growing up here. As I went to college, worked and traveled in the state I have not found the general consensus to be favorable of this area and I can not disagree with that view in what I have witnessed.
If you talk to the teenagers in this area and listen to them as opposed to ask them a question and after they give you an answer treat them as imbeciles or make stupid assumptions as you did in your last sentence you will get honest feed back.
2:49 pull your head out of the sand. Giles County itself, the elected officials and the hired County employees need to stop promoting and perpetuating the fact that Giles County is a backwater, hick, uneducated, lousy school system and no place to work, retirement community.
That is what Giles County has become and currently is. It use to be a really great rural farm County; but it no longer is.
No words will ever change this ... only the willingness to correct what is wrong and to gang together and make this County what it could bwe will make any difference. You better be thankfull for those "not from here people" who have moved to here; because all the "from here" children are moving away to find work and a good life.
As for 3:04 you are so cute to point out the mistakes of others when you have nothing to provide as to how Giles County can become a better place that people want to move here. And other people want to Hear how geat Giles County really is. But with the lousy school system here; it is a wounder that anyone "educated" here can Hear and comprehend.
And how does this all relate to Mr. Barry Witt's job description and his performance?
Why has not the State Audit team found and reported that Mrs. Janet Parker Vanzant demanded, authorized, and paid a salaried Department head (namely Mr. Barry Whitt - at least $6,000.00 last fiscal year) overtime pay when a salaried employee is not to receive overtime pay???
People that sit around and complain all the time about what everyone else is doing will always be left in the dark. Nobody likes a negative attitude. Nobody likes someone that finds something wrong with everything in the world that surrounds them. Giles County is not that bad. It is actually a good place to live and raise a family. Life is simple and far less stressful than larger cities. People that want to find work can finde work.
The TRUTH is people live in Giles County because they want to live here. I can't remember a time when there hasn't been loud mouthed folks like Barrett and Billard and that whole group of people that constantly create problems within the county. It is clear that what they want never happens. It is apparent that the attitude they show doesn't get them anywhere. This blog is place for those few folks to display theie anger and hatred. Ignore it because they are all insignificant. They are jealous and miserable. Life is far more important than this blog. Barrett has a terrible reputation around this town. Probably the worst of anyone I have ever known. His personal failures in life shouldn't reflect how any respectable person feels.
Let him keep losing money in the court system. Let him continue to make himself look foolish. Nobody here has to try and prove it because he is an expert at making himself look bad.
7:54 cg You sound just like Obama.
People that want to find work can.
Why are young boys finishing school and can't find jobs having to give up and join the army? Why are there so many empty houses in Giles County and other places. Why are college graduates can't find a job so cutting grass to have a little money?
I thought you had hit rock bottom telling people what to think or what you think they think. Then you come up with jobs out there.
You are a liar. You have said three or more times you was going to quit posting on the blog but keep on. That and jobs to be found is four lies you have told. Maybe you think that is a little white lie. There is no such thing. A lie is a lie.
The last sentence in the first paragraph is what I'm talking about.
"People that want to find work can finde work." Not the rest of the rambling you just posted.
Somebody must have really upset you.
3:17
You are so quick to jump on anyone who posts something you disagree with. Then you resort to calling 7:54 names simply because he or she is not as enamored with your hero as you are.
Oh, and please allow me to say this. I pretty much agree with everything 7:54 said about Barrett and his group. As far as I know, we still have a right to our opinions. My opinion of them is low.
Having said all that, I too have relatives who have moved away because there's no work here. That's how it is in a lot of places. And I'm not trying to make excuses for people like Dan Speer. The thoughts of this becominmg a retirement community make me furious. I think he needs to retire and go somewhere else.
Have you ever had to make a pretty big decision about something? Did you find yourself changing your mind about it over and over and over until, in frustration, you finally had to choose? Oh, I'm sure you will say no, but I'm sure you understand the concept.
There are a lot of people in life who upset me. For example, I have no patience with child molesters and people who sponge off the government and will not work. I am even more upset with people who seek to destroy the lives of those they resent, and particularly those who are constantly trying to cause trouble.
7:15 Why don't you hope a bus out of town, since you are so unhappy with a few people in Giles County. I'm sure someone will be glad to help you pack.
I am sure glad that most of the people I know are tolerant about other people’s opinions whether or not they agree with those opinions. Do I agree with Barrett? Not necessarily; but, I am willing to allow him to speak (write) his opinion without engaging in personal attacks and unfounded accusations. Do I agree with how this County is being governed? Not by a long shot. But, I voice my opinion at the polls and directly to those elected officials who are willing to listen (those that are willing to listen are rare). I have found that the County Executive is unwilling to listen to any criticism constructive or otherwise; from Commissioners, other officials and especially the public.
8:58
Sorry pal, but I'm not going anywhere. However, there are a lot of people who would come help you pack and even chip in on buying you a bus ticket...one way of course. They would just need to know where you are.
1:01 That is just the way I feel. I'm not going anywhere and will be glad to buy you a one way ticket out of Giles county. Must be the way everyone you have told to move feels. Laughable!!
How come no one knows how to spell Barry's last name?
To 3:17. The statement that "People who want to find work, can find work." is absolutely true. I recently chose to leave my full time job because I was not happy with it. In the time it takes to find a job I want I am workin several jobs to keep my bills paid. They are not jobs that pay alot, jobs that are easy, or jobs I will do for the rest of my career. However they are employment. The problem with college graduates that come out with a Buisness Management degree is that they will have to start at the bottom and work their way up. The sense of entitlement is astounding! Just because you want a great job does not mean you will get one without earning it. Sometimes life is hard and you have to tighten your belt and get by with what you can. Striving all the more to make somethin beter of yourself. This is a notion that is lost on most of our society today.
8:42 I think it's lost on Mrs. Vanzant and the commissioners. They need to tighten their belt. I don't think people would mind a increase in taxes if they showed they were trying to cut expense.
A few years ago jobs was easy to find.
They aren't that easy today. Did you have a pull to get your jobs. I know some have tried everywhere they can even out of state and they are not choosey, just want a job. Most places now work you part time, lay you off and hire new people to keep from paying for insurance. I can understand that. The school system is only working a lot of their cafeteria employees part time to keep from paying insurance.
They are having to save every where they can.
What most people don't understand is the cafeteria is self supporting.
Expense like insurance, matching Social Security and retirement as well as the food, etc has to come from the money collected.
The county furnishes the building, water, electric and gas.
5:52
You are entitled to your feelings, and I, unlike some who post on here, respect them. However, I will be glad to come over and help you pack should you change your mind and decide to move away. I'll even help you with the moving expense if you will promise to take at least one or two of the troublemakers with you.
Mr. Barrett, do you know how to spell
Barry's last name?? I see ray and cg don't know either.
Do you know who people are talking about when they write Barry Witt? If you do what does it matter how you spell his name when the problem isn't with his name but with the tax money he is taking from the county while someone else does the work.
I can't believe with all the questions about no job description, no supervision, illegal manipulation of overtime pay, an assistant doing all the work, etc and what is the big concern this morning, how you spell someone's name, unbelievable.
Looks like someone wanted to post so they come up with anything to change the subject.
8:52 and 6:02 and cg, how about all three of you moving away.
I didn't see Barry's name in the phone book, he must spell his name Whitt, but in Lynville phone book there are two people spelling theirs Witt. This is my first time to write his name just thought I would help 7:26 out.
Just noticed my computer shows I spelled Whitt wrong. It has Witt spelled right. I will admit I thought it was suppose to have an h in it.
To the dumbass at 7:26, you don't see nothing about me on this topic. Look back through the comments if you can and kindly point out where I even posted, much less said anyone's name but yours, dumbass. I believe I spelled that right, didn't I?
I didn't see you spell it either, merely referred to him as "Barry". If you can pull your head out of that deep, dark place you keep it you might make more sense in your comments. Dumbass.
Ray Lanier
Well Mr. Whitt is back at his body shop supervising his daughter and employees.
I am glad that he is not receiving overtime while he is out of his "office" and supervising body work employees. Or, is he?
Yeah ... I know .... call his and discuss this with him. But, he is not in his office and cannot answer the phone. How about that.
I gusee I'm just causing trouble by pointing out county employees being paid for not doing what they are to do and not being where they are to be.
7:16 What's the problem it's only tax money and we'll just get more when it's needed. He may be in his body shop but I'm sure he's thinking about his government job.
Then call and leave a message for him to call you back. While you are at it call or visit Mrs. Vanzant or one or more of your commissioners. There's no need for troublemaking. Go to the source.
While you are making these accusations, why don't you leave your name and phone number so Barry can call and discuss these matters with you? I'm sure he would like to be able to do that.
So step up to the plate and give your name or just shut up, Ok? We don't need all this troublemaking. Hasn't there been enough? Isn't it time to stop it?
I have not been the one posting on this topic, but I'll admit that I too am curious about the question. Mr.Whitt is more than welcome to call me and explain the situation. I'll be more than happy to pass any answers along to the blog community, should he decide to call and try to set the matter straight.
931-922-3208
Ray Lanier
Ray..
You're too cool. Honestly.
I know, right? Thanks 8:57.
Ray Lanier
Why is it trouble-making when someone questions the actions of an official
but it's never trouble-making when an official is doing wrong?
It is serious trouble making ... because most of our elected officials do not like to be questioned. They know bwtter than the average voter and therefore are not to be questioned. Sort of like ROYALTY.
Us pesants need to know our place and bown down and keep our mouths shut.
That is why our founding fathers did what we are doing. Kicking up the dust, questioning authority, and becoming free.
11:43
No, our elected officials don't mind being questioned at all. What they do mind is a group of unhappy people calling them names and making all kinds of mean and nasty accusations about them. How would you like it if those remarks were constantly being made about you?
Stop listening to the voice of hatred and jealousy and become a positive force for good and change. Nobody I know of is against that.
Why is it then public comments and/or questions are not allowed at public meetings? Granted, some meeting allow you to submit a question a week prior to that meeting and then the officials will determine whether or not that question willbe asked.
However, spontanious questions a never allowed (not name calling or rude remarks) just honest questions about what is going on and how decisions are made.
I posted on Wednesday at 1:55 PM
I guess that the posters who are adement in supporting the County Executive and those Commissioners who do not want individuals to have a say cannot or will not truthfully answer my question.
Not surprising
Well here we are one week later and still no retort or comments from Vanzant supporters.
They cannot deny that Vanzant refuses to allow the general public to have any free and open comments during any government meeting during which she is attending.
That is truely government for and by the people.
Stop crying 7:18. Nobody likes a crybaby.
Barry,
Don't worry. They are back to attacking David Rackley again.
Attacking David for supporting who he wishes nad voting for whom he wishes. Barry for milking the County taxpayers.
I've read this blog several times and still don't know who Barry Whit is or what he does. No puns intended I just hadn't heard of him and what he was suppose to do so got me wondering.
No puns? What the hell are you talking about? Some of you folks are complete morons.
Wonder why the topic of a thread always gets changed in the posting?
When no one has anything to contribute, they resort to personal attacks, i.e. "morons", "imbecile", "idiots". It's the only thing they have to fall back on.
They don't wish to remain silent and make folks think they are what the call others.
Ray Lanier
Barry Whitt is suposedly the Director of the Office of Emergancy management for Giles County. He has also been tasked to be the Fire Marshall and the Public Safety Director.
As for being the OEM Director .. Barry does nothing except attend meetings (sometimes he is absent) ,carry a badge and a gun. Jerremy does all the work. Jerremy completes all grant forms and requests as well as all TEMA and FEMA forms. Jerremy also does all the training.
As for Fire Narshall .. The County Fire Chief is the person who is responsible for investigating all fires. Barry is to enforce building occupancy codes.
As for Public Safety .. Barry is responsible for completing State and Federal OSHA and other required forms. Chances are that Jerremy also does this.
10:31 A big thank you!!!!
I've been reading this thread and wondering what Barry did. I wasn't complaining about him, just since the question was brought up, wondered what he did or was suppose to do.
It seems so strange so many post before someone finally told me, us.
If Jerremy is doing all the work, completing all the forms and all the teaching ... what is mr. Whitt doing? I understand from those who work with Mr. Whitt, at the State (TEMA in Nashville) and local level, that he is basically computer illerate, math illerate, writing illerate and that Jerremy is the person who is keeping their office together and functioning.
All Mr. Whitt seems to do is drive around in his County vehicle and supervise his automotive body repair business.
Yeah, I think he packs that pistol at his shop to make sure no one gets more coats of paint than they pay for. Oh wait, Joey takes care of everything down there so I don't really know what he does.
Ray Lanier
Who does Mr. Whitt answer to? What Commission Committee oversees the activities of the Emergency Management Office? Who approves their budget?
Call and siscuss this with Barry. Better yet, call one of your commissioners. Oh, I forgot. None of the commissioners can be reached by phone. LOL.
The simple answer is NO ONE!!!
Mr. Whitt does not report to any County Commission Committee nor is his budget reviewed and approved by any County Commission Committee.
He suposedly reports directly to the County Executive. I guess that is why his budget has increased from approzimately $2,900.00 in 2004 to over $140,000.00 this year. Not a bad increase in these tough financial times. That is over $17,000.00 per year increase every year for 8 years.
Did Mr. Whitt have a good time at Gattlenburg, last week, at tax payers expense?
Isn't it about time CAVE got back on Roy Griggs or Barry Hyatt? I mean...let's be fair and give each official an equally hard time here.
Let's call Mr. Whitt and ask him about last week's trip. Does anyone have a phone number where Mr. Whitt can be reached? He is never in his "office" at the Courthouse Annix.
I think it's time cg went back to his cave.
Oh heck let's just talk about Roy Griggs, what do you want to know, pretty good fellow isn't he.
Barry Hyatt, who is he? A busy man isn't he.
Let's go to the 7th District Commissioners, they voted the cuts back in the budget just like they did last year. I believe all the other commissioners agreed with them.
Since Bill Holt is moving into the 7th District, will Terry Harwell resign thereby allowing Holt to be elected into that position?
NO, Harwell likes to be commissioner too much.
Care to make a bet?
I happen to think Roy Griggs is an asset to our community. He has come to my rescue on more than on occasion. I would be willing to bet he has helped many of you out as well.
If you ever find yourself upside down in a ditch, bleeding profusely, I think you would be most grateful to see Roy show up at the scene.
Ray Lanier
Who is this Whitt fellow and why the fuss? Does he not run an autobody shop?
I am proud to say that Barry Whitt was alive, well and incharge at his auto body repair shop, yeaterday October 25 at 2:23 PM in the afternoon. While on County payroll
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