About last night...

There was a Board of Supervisors' Meeting last night.  All of the Supervisors were in attendance except Michael Johnson, who was on the phone.

Before I go on, let me say this about that: Apparently, it is okay for a Supervisor to attend a meeting via phone if there is a physical quorum.  That is, a quorum cannot be created by a member calling in to attend the meeting.  I don't like this but there it is.  In my opinion, if you can't put your butt in the seat, you are absent.

Oh and one more thing: TCUD Matt Young again did not show to give his report.  Folks TCUD is a big problem and the Director can't even be bothered attend a meeting and report so that the public can hear what is going on.  Written reports to the BOS does not get it.  You people work for us and we want to hear from you.

Okay, so here goes:

Last night, County Administrator, Adrian McKay, proposed the hiring of a Senior Accountant.  The person he proposed is Tim Hale who used to be with Williams, Pitts and Beard.  McKay stated that Hale had been involved in the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Tunica County Audits.  Hmm, I thought there wasn't an audit for 2014 and Michael Thompson was being blamed for this oversight.  At least this was the story until last night.

It has long been my contention that the Comptroller leads in our financial audit and until recently, McKay was the Comptroller.  His job.  His responsibility.

So, McKay wants to hire Hale.  McKay interviews Hale.  McKay does not allow the current Comptroller, Delilah Vaughn, who will be Hale's supervisor, to interview Hale.  McKay does not allow the Human Resources Officer, Hylan Oliver, to even look at the resume so that he can weigh in on the appropriate salary.  Then McKay suggests a salary of $47,400 for Hale when Vaughn was paid $43,000 in the same position.

Both Sonny Nickson and Phillis Williams voted against hiring Hale.  They lost their bid to Dunn, Johnson and Pegram.  Then Nickson suggested a salary of $43K for the position.  Again, Nickson and Williams lost their bid to Dunn, Johnson and Pegram.

Wonder where Hale lives?  Tunica County?  Probably not.  So much for hiring people who live in Tunica County.  Oh, you only had to live in Tunica County if your name was Michael Thompson.  Sorry, I forgot.

Well Phillis, how do you like your choice of County Administrator now?

Then we get to James Dunn's agenda item to move the first BOSs' Meeting to 9a.  During the meeting he made some grumblings about moving all of the meetings to 9a.  Rev. Fullilove stood up in the audience and said this would not be good for the citizens and Dunn had not bothered to ask the citizens.  Of course, Pegram wants to move the meetings to 9a like they used to be.  You know, when the Board of Supervisors didn't want the public to know what was going on...when they sold our souls down the river with all of these Component Units and Bonds.

I believe this move by Dunn is to silence Sonny Nickson and give King James, a/k/a James Dunn, the opportunity to pull the wool over our eyes yet again.  For those of you who don't know, Sonny Nickson is a teacher and he is in class teaching so our children can learn at 9a in the morning.  Moving the meetings to 9a would leave the citizens of Beat 4 without a voice at the table and would disenfranchise your Supervisor.

Also on my mind: About our Health Insurance: yes we have to get bids each year but know this Dunn, Johnson and Pegram: We are going to be watching very carefully how you handle this contract.  Nick Floyd and Associates have been good for our County.  Through the Bridge Policy they have returned money to our County.