Sandy,
I just wanted to say a few words about your actions in the last two weeks. You kept telling us the the commissioners were wrong, We could not figure out what you were talking about. But, by asking questions of you and reading your blog it all clicked yesterday. Yes the Commissioner are wrong and YES THEY NEED TO GIVE THE SHERIFF SOME MONEY TO MEET PAYROLL. (read next post for explanation)
Sandy you stood strong on an issue most of us was against you on. Your stand may have cost you the election in St. Marys. But it has shown me that you are not here for anyone but the people. Thank you.
Folks,
We need better communications from all elected offices. Sandy, when he was commissioner had a blog to communicate with the people. Why won't the others do the same. How many times has your commissioner called and asked for your views? Mr. Rainer has never called me. Maybe they don't care what we think. If Sandy didn't have his blog, we would have never gotten to the bottom of this. These blogs are NOT worthless.
Commissioners need to call an emergency meeting and vote to give Smith the missing payroll.
Just so everyone knows they are short on payroll because of three pay periods this month.
Remember Smith gets 550,000 a month, throw in an extra payday and you can see it isn't there, and not because Smith misused it.
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Personally, I think old Bill could make payroll, for a 3 payday month,he's alloted, $550,000.00. amonth, he should damn well manage his office within the budget that he was given, if he can't he could go to the Governor's office and declare a financial state of emergency. But he won't because it will make him look like the ass he is, and ol goat still is trying his damnest to make Berry look like an ass for licking the red off of Bill's candy
Well that is fine, Yes Bill did screw up that is why he is in this situtation. But if you are given a monthly budget based on a year, you would not have the money either. Think about it if you have a $500.00 budget, and out of that you have 2 paydays of $200.00 that you pay someone else and 1 house payment of $100.00. What happens when a third payday comes along? You don't have the money.
No Bill has not misspent this money.
I have more to come.
Rick
If I was managing a budget, I WOULD HAVE KNOWN ahead of time about the 3 paydays in a month and would have budgeted accordingly.
I don't want to hear it wasn't the sheriff's fault.......
Bob
I don't think you are listen to what I said, when your aloted a budget, you work around it and make it work, it might mean laying off Wesley, and a few of the extras he's got around that does nothing, or, they may take a few weeks off like some of his staff are, and I bet you every darn one of them has hours on hours of vacation on the book's, and guess what if they do that money's set aside for them to use for that, it has allready been included in previous amounts alotted for that, and you know what, you can take off so they can make the payroll and guess what, if they got the hours on the books, they will get paid.
All you got now is another sweet willie smoke screen. may I recommend a course on southren politics 101.
I'm a housewife of an officer in the woods of Woodbine, and I figured out a couple of months ago there would be 3 paydays and holiday pay this month!!! If you pay attention to your budget you know these things!!!! If Bill Smith had taken some of the UNNECESSARY gas guzzlers off the road a couple of months ago, he'd be able to make payroll AND holiday pay!!! Seems like his employees are not one of his priorities!!!! Tommy Gregory has our vote, for sure!
Rick, you are sounding like you may be in for another DUI. What are you drinking now? You can't just start throwwing figures around to make your argument right. Be real, What is the actuall payroll for a two week period? With that answer, I can make an educated statement about his department and his budget. Damn, down just throw figures to make your agrument seem right.
You tell em housewife!!Go girl.
Damn straight lady, theres lots of us outhere in these woods that are sick and tired of Sweet Wille and his crap. I guess he's forgotten, that when the going gets tuff, the tuff get going.
With a budget with as much money in it as the sherriff has, why didn't SOMEBODY foresee this problem? I think he should be made to pull the money out of his own pocket to meet the payroll, holiday pay AND A BONUS for the policemen!! Talk about BAD management.
If his payroll for the month of November cannot be made out of a half million dollars, then he needs to lay off some of his non essential personnel. That would probably be about half of his employees. Rick, before you start jumping up and down about the poor Sheriff and his payroll, find out what his total payroll costs are for one pay period. I also agree that if he was so concerned about meeting his payroll, he should not have waited until time for the payroll to start raving. He should start by firing the person who is supposed to be watchig his budget expenditures, if such a person exists. He could make the payroll out of his drug slush fund and pay it back next month. Why not, if he can justify all of the money he has spent in the past, like paying inmates for work on private property? Paying his employees would appear to be more important than paying inmates. However he may not feel that way, in fact he obviously does not feel that way, does he???
A lady at the substation told me this morning that she knew of only one employee that has been sent home as a result of the sheriff's cut back. She would not give me his name but said he was a detective. She also said that Charlene told her that the sheriff was going to clean house now that he has a good excuse to let people go. She said that Berry would get all the blame and that the sheriff could get rid of those that he thinks is not loyal enough. Does that surprise anyone?? Not me. By the way I checked on the hog farmer this morning and he went back out to Willie's right on schedule. Sit down from Willie's ponderosa any morning, early, and you will see the hog farmer going to feed up.
A lady at the substation told me this morning that she knew of only one employee that has been sent home as a result of the sheriff's cut back. She would not give me his name but said he was a detective. She also said that Charlene told her that the sheriff was going to clean house now that he has a good excuse to let people go. She said that Berry would get all the blame and that the sheriff could get rid of those that he thinks is not loyal enough. Does that surprise anyone?? Not me. By the way I checked on the hog farmer this morning and he went back out to Willie's right on schedule. Sit down from Willie's ponderosa any morning, early, and you will see the hog farmer going to feed up.
His distingushed markswoman ordainar, was seen in an unmarked car, with a toombs county lic. plate on it, at 1024 hours, 11/14/2007. she was shopping at K mart. I hope she used her own credit card, but she may have been looking for her partner, since she was banned from wal mart, for five finger discounts
One thing for sure they are still trying to slip through the cracks, but you know what Willie, you got more public eyes on your stuff now than you've ever had, Guess what, you gonna be glad when you get locked up so you won't have to be looking over your shoulders anymore.
Anybody reading the paper about all the crooked sherriff's here in Ga.? The sherriff of Clinch County was just indicted for doing some of the same things Bill Smith is doing. The Feds also indicted a Judge there for being in cahoots with him. This was on the Associated Press. Check it out.
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