Last Of The Questions I Tried To Ask At The Public Hearing On The Budget.
Page 14, Line Item 55733-105 Line item The pay for supervisor of the Transfer Station is listed at $50,000 where last year it was $34,113.00 an increase of $15,887. How can this be justified? Do we even have a transfer station?
Page 14 line item 55710-312, contract with private agency $70,006.00. Is this the dead animal pick up? How do you justify using taxpayer money to subsidize the income of certain private individuals and especially when some commissioners may benefit from this subsidy?
On Page 15, Line Item 56900-101 shows a new employee listed at a salary of $34,113.00. Does this position have a job description? Was the position advertised? Was the position approved by the Commissioners?
Under this same 5699 line Item the part-time employee position has been eliminated and the same amount is listed for other salaries and wages. Who will be the recipient of that $12,485.00?
You gave extra many to the Senior Citizens to help with meals for shut ins then gave money to the Human Resources Agency which listed meals to shut-in as one of their expenses. Is this an overlap of efforts?
How many of the “charities” have actually been checked as to what they actually do and if they are actually qualified 501c charities?
These questions could have been responded to this morning during the six minute Public Hearing but no one on the Budget Committee made and effort to give any answers and those other commissioners in the room had no opportunity to answer anything.
Tomorrow The Commissioners vote on this budget, I urge you to call your Commissioners and ask these questions before they vote.
Tomorrow The Commissioners vote on this budget, I urge you to call your Commissioners and ask these questions before they vote.
posted by Allen Barrett | 3:34 PM
7 Comments:
Mr. Barrett. You have made some very good point, but unfortunately no one will ever listen to you.
He is always an afterthought when the issue is finalized.
Afterthoughts will be in elections in upcoming years.
I appreciate your comments but I have no responsibility in how you or others receive the truth, my responsibility is simply to share that truth. It has been demonstrated a number of times that for the most part until something directly impacts a person's life they just don't have very much concern for the matter. Most people are just too busy trying to make a living and provide for their family and just don't have the energy to deal with what many believe to be an unwindable effort.
This is a very simple problem to correct.
Call the Nashville TV stations and tell them what's going on down here in Giles county.
They will send reporters down who will shove a microphone in front of these crooks and have them on television. Now THAT will be a site.
Then, the TBI will come swooping in and put all of these hillbillies in prison.
Problem solved.
Since that is a new job for 34,113 dollars why wasn't it advertised and people allowed to compete for it. This is just another underhanded deal Vanzant has pulled.
Well it looks like the man responsible for creating the biggest and costliest mess in the county has a new job. A new position was created just for Dan Watson that was never advertised, or announced in any way, in violation of state law, For twelve years the man apparently did less that Mrs Phillips has done in twelve weeks.
So now with his new job in "old records" department he now has the opportunity to resume writing for the newspaper while working on the taxpayers $34,113 dollar salary.
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