Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Commissioners Reduce Employee Hours for a Second Time

At its regular session today, the Darke County Commissioners cut its staffs hours for the second time in three months. As of April 26, 2009, the commissioners staff was cut from 80 hours per pay period (2 weeks) to 75 hours per pay period. Today's resolution makes a further cut to 70 hours per week, and this cut also applies to the maintenance employees. Commissioner Haworth noted that these cuts are not pleasant but are necessary (paraphrased).

14 comments:

  1. I was driving down Front St. and saw that they are putting a new roof on the old county garage. Seems odd to me if you are in dire straits, you couldn't put off a construction project until you get your sales tax receipts up. I hope that these people are local contractors doing the work to keep the counties money in the county during these economic times!!!

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  2. County Contractors? You're talking about Dare County & Greenville... do they ever use County Contractors... I don't think so.

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  3. Wonder why the Darke county court has not considered closing one day a week like many of our surrounding counties have? Are all the departments being cut fairly?

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  4. I heard that one dept. has just cut overtime. I wonder if they were all to take a 10 percent cut, would a dept. be that fat on overtime to be able to get 10 percent of their appropriated budget cut with just cutting O.T. ? Seems to me that it don't seem fair for one dept. to loose employees and have their hours reduced and another to just reduce over time.

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  5. You know honestly, I'd rather the county take the time to hire people to do it right even if they are from the moon, because I don't want to have to pay for it again two years from now when they have to fix it because they hired people that didn't do quality work.

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  6. I think everybody is being pretty hard on the commissioners. They have always diligently worked through tough times and I think with the leadership and fiscal responsibility that they have shown in the past, this will just be a small hurdle.

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  7. Fiscal Responsibility? Is that what you call being in debt over $7 million, having decreasing receipts, and still trying to borrow more to build an $8 million new courthouse? The hurdle may be pretty high.

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  8. Lots of cities and counties are in heavy debt, it doesn't make it right, but it doesn't mean that there aren't macro-economic forces at work, which are our of their control.

    In nearly every thread on here, people have a snide remark about the county commissioners, if they do such horrible jobs then why have 2 of them been in office over 12yrs?

    One of those seats will be up for election in a little over a year from now, if you think you would be a better represetnative of the people then you should think about running.

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  9. Re Anonymous 7/31/09 6:30 PM

    The last 12 years have not dealt us the financial woes of this past year. That, and the fact that no one wants the shear headache of serving as Commissioner, probably explains why we have no new blood in this office.

    But, I agree with you....step up to the plate if you think you can tackle this job....otherwise, cease and desist with the snide remarks.

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  10. I agree with both of you... Everyone is willing to forget what has been done well as soon as things get tough... The commissioners haven't been doing a bad job all these years or else they wouldn't still be in office...

    Some people are never happy, yet will do nothing about it other than complain, I guess that's their right to do so, but it sure does waste a lot of time.

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  11. To continue your logic, most Congressmen and Senators have been doing great jobs for many years, or else they wouldn't still be in office!

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  12. I'm glad to see people agreeing with me... I guess it just frustrates me to hear smear, smear, smear... Its like watching a professional football game and having someone who hasn't played since high school go on about how they could do a better job, and not make the same mistakes. At least in politics, especially at the local level, there is very little stopping someone from proving it, but few do.

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  13. "Those who think they are too smart to be involved in government are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
    Plato

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  14. "A commander is only as good as the people under his command"

    ~Col. Robert E. Hogan

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