4. My Supervisor doesn't make good decisions.

And he is not the only one. I've disagreed with so many of their decisions that I've lost count.

Recently, I wrote in this blog about the Sheriff’s request for grant approval from the MS Victims of Crime Program. This grant would be $38,628.00 from the federal government with a $12,876.00 local match.

This item was first on the 30 Jun 2011 agenda and my Supervisor moved to approve this grant. The motion died for lack of a second.

So, at the next Board of Supervisors’ Meeting on 5 Jul 2011, this same item was placed on the table for consideration. This time the Sheriff was present to present his case. The Sheriff said that the Fire Department hasn’t paid the Sheriff’s Department for dispatch services in at least 2 years. The Sheriff said he was going to get the Board’s Attorney to help him collect the money from the Fire Department.

This time the entire Board of Supervisors approved this motion.

Didn’t anyone of them think to tell the Sheriff to collect the money first and then come back for approval? My Supervisor sure didn’t. So, who is going to pay this “local match” if the Fire Department doesn’t have the money? No one even thought to ask the County Administrator who was sitting right there if the Fire Department had the money to give to the Sheriff’s Department. Nobody!!!!

So, what happens if the Fire Department can’t pay this money? We get to pay it out of the General Fund. Just the good old boys going along to get along. In my opinion there isn’t a thinking head in this bunch.