How you got screwed this week.
First on the agenda was the Court met on Monday instead of their normal meeting day of Tuesday. They generally do not offer a reason because they assume the taxpayers are too ignorant to understand any way.
There is a budget amendment moving funds from the emergency fund to pay for fuel for the new Tradinghouse park manager. Not a big amount of money but it is not in the budget. The is the money Scott “Gruber” Felton said he was saving you by redistricting.
Much the same thing to buy a computer for the new Criminal Justice Analyst position. Not in the budget so rob the money from the emergency fund.
In the past, when an employee retired and had vacation time on the books, that person could not be replaced until they were paid from the budget. The incentive is for managers to stay on top of personnel management. The manager had a responsibility. This year, a new trend started where rather than managing the human resources, they just shaft the taxpayers. The Commissioner only has a 6 figure compensation package, you can’t expect he would actually work for that meager sum. 
So the generator at the Fairgrounds had a problem. The interesting thing about this one is the court already approved the repair and had no clue where the money was going to come from. I remember a story Don McCauley told about his A/C going out one year and the family had to choose between A/C and a family vacation. He would be rolling over in his grave over crap like this.
