They shut off the phones so as to eliminate any possibility of being required to work a few minutes past the posted hours. Their union rules will not let them work longer if needed, until tomorrow. Same is true of coffee breaks and lunch. Of course, any night or evening work for OUR convenience is totally out of the question. Those are positions with rules, we are the servants and taxpayers, and we are also rude to officials and also to people who aren't officials. I think they are working toward no doors open to the public, written requests only by e-mail just like the banks are working toward, and then the East Indians can answer our querries. I noticed where the Iraqi forces are off 25% OF THE TIME ON LEAVE--MAYBE THAT WOULD BE GOOD?

I add this comment, today Thursday, March 8. Notice how what I had warned about on November 2, 2006 is coming to pass four months later. If predicting things four months ahead of time is not helpful, I don't know what is. (Wouldn't you like to know what some stock market prices will be like in four months?)

Knowledge is power. It is also helpful.

Ignorance is bliss. It is also harmful.

All the county commissioners have to do is ask the Peachtree City council for the formula they used to justify their 110 percent pay increase.

Vote Republican (except Westmoreland)

Raise the pay 100% or 200% or whatever it takes to encourage qualified people to run for office. No one is trying to raise their own salary, all they want is to have someone with half a brain succeed them in office.
meow

Do you really want this job?

It would be easer to just paint a target on the back of my head.

What we have had however, is the best of the worst. You either have out of control crusaders (Brown, Tennant), control freaks (Lenox, Rapson, Dunn), clueless followers (Horgan, Frady, Boone, Weed), special interst people (Plunkett, Rutherford) or an occasional fair-minded person who lacks leadership skills (Kourajian, Pfifer).
Even the development shills are there for the wrong reason. That only explores the ones that have been elected recently. Go back and look at the ones who lost.

As much as attorneys and accountants come with their own baggage, those are the types you want administering local law and the city or county budgets. A pay raise might be what it takes to attract a semi-retired professional. After all, how much can it cost? we are only talking about 5 people in the city and another 5 in the county. You can find your first $150,000 by eliminating the Asst. City Mgr. job in PTC. I know, he only gets $110,000 salary - ask the next accountant you see what the real cost/expense/total $$$ of a government job is. Answer almost 140%.
meow