Every year we have to listen to the Garbage! by Katherine Callahan

Every year we have to listen to the Garbage!

Yes, it’s GARBAGE, from the County Council!

We can’t afford to give raises!

We have to cut the budget!

We have no money!

We have to raise taxes!

Departments have to be more fiscally responsible!

We knew NOTHING about the merit raises for the Sheriff’s?????

Well, according to an article below 4 members of this Council did!

Give it a rest!

Because it’s all HOT air with nothing but lies!

Right here! Commissioner Richwine, Pratt, Gardner are at it again!

$150,000.00 in settlements???!!!

This County has over a 100 cases open because so many keep voting in so much incompetence…kind of… we have all witnessed the County Election board, with Clerk Linda Smith at the helm, force ballots to make machines produce whatever results she wants!

The first thing that comes out of most officials' mouths… we just have to raise taxes!!!!! MAX the TaX!

For what???? I will tell you why… you want to raise our taxes to continue to pay for the cartels screw ups… then the Council says, absolutely!

Perhaps it’s time the commissioner’s start paying the lawsuits from their personal finances! And start living within the budget you approved!

The Commissioner’s want close to $450,000.00!!!!

At what point does this Council say NO! Not to part of it… To all of it!??!!?

I want to know what happened to the allocated amount for the 2024-2025 budget regarding FICA, PERF and these “to come” settlements????

 FICA and PERF should have already been budgeted….

Or did the commissioner’s transfer money out of those line items to pay misappropriated bills???

Why, because every flipping year they know if they come in asking for this… the council has to fund it, so they will say, yes?

We had this discussion regarding misappropriation of funds, this time last year, when the commissioners over spent $100k!!!

Instead of any council member calling it out…all 6 members present, decided to have me removed for telling the TRUTH… while Vaughn, Norrick, Steele, Likens, Gale,ISP trooper Emery, turned a blind eye to the, class B misdemeanor that the Commissioner’s should have been charged with!

I hope the taxpayers remember those names at the polls and send them packing next election!!!

To make matters worse the Prosecutors are sitting in there and do nothing! Then trip over themselves to protect the corruption by making absurd rules, that if you point out the theft they will throw you in jail… because they can! They have elections to manipulate and win! It’s so disturbing!

I hope the seats will be filled at this meeting!

This Council cannot find the $400k needed for our sheriff’s, but they can approve Commissioners funding with no explanation/justification like it’s water?!? Well, this smells ROTTEN, just like our water!

Wants vs Needs!

This Council should Send the commissioner’s packing and start taking care of our Sheriff deputies!

Show the taxpayers where these reckless Commissioners are spending our money!

This Council should demand the Commissioner’s, tell all of us, what these settlements are about before you appropriate a dime!

Before this Council even speaks of raising another tax…..

You better explain to everyone why you keep allowing this reckless spending by the Commissioner’s and this County still has nothing to show for it!

How much has our county insurance gone up over the last four years because Richwine keeps getting us sued?!?

How much are we paying annually in all attorney fees?????

That’s all Richwine-Likens-Gardner-Gale-Emery-Steele-Alexander cried about with Phipps and Gaskill in 2020!

Well, it’s time for this County Council to do what they were elected to do and represent the taxpayers with answers, transparency and a hard NO to any additional funding!

Can you have these numbers for the people too!!!?????

Since the Auditor never knows where the money is???

And what has happened to the blank check you just gave the commissioner’s for $500k ????

Can someone show us an itemized payment for all that?

Because the $50k for the clock tower, better be accounted for, since the tower still isn’t working.

This is insane!

Show us the spending! Or give us some honest answers!