Sorry if this is the wrong forum but it seems this topic goes well here. Anyways, have you ever noticed Lake Peachtree in August with all the weeds and boats getting stuck in the weeds? I have and the stocked grass carp are barely doing anything because theres too much milfoil! Adding more grasscarp will stunt the natural species like largemouth bass and bluegill, crappie, ect...

Why is it that many counties in our state and across the nation are smart enough to use inmates for some governmental services and Fayette County is not? Inmates are sentenced to jail correct? Why do we allow inmates to just sit in our county jail and watch tv, play cards, checkers, chess, and basketball. They get 3 meals a day, a cell with warm blankets, showers, and medical care. How much are we spending on employees salaries, benefits, and raises just to cut grass, plant flowers, do manual labor on projects that just require sweat and hard work? Other counties use inmates to do such task. They cut the grass at county facilities, parks, ballfields, and government property. They work on grass cutting crews that ride tractors cutting the roadways. They are assigned as manual labor workers on road crews. These are just a few examples where Fayette Co. could take advantage of these people by saving thousands of tax payer dollars and making the inmates work to repay society and not keep free loading. Heck, if i were homeless, I could get 3 squares,a cot, indoor plumbing, a roof over my head, medical care, and entertainment provded by the county just by committing some minor crimes. Please tell me how not hiring one guard to oversee a work detail is not more practical than having entire departments of paid employees. Let use our resources and stop waisting money to pay for simple jobs. Other counties do this, Mr. Commissioners I ask, Why can't Fayette Co. do the same?

Now that Fayette County Sheriff's Deparment has a new Sheriff and has new promotions, how will the county pay for all these promotions? What will happen to those who have not had a raise in four years? Will all the staff that didn't get promoted not get a raise? Will they have to wait another four years? Is the county and all higher-ups the only ones that will get a pay increase? It seems to me that those working(that didn't get promoted) for the Sheriff Department are going to get the bad end of the stick.

I am writing in regard to the upcoming runoff election for the Fayette County Commission, Post 3 seat. If you have read my previous comments, you know I'm for Peter Pfeifer. I, for one, am proud to support a candidate who is so well respected and endorsed by so many of the ordinary, everyday citizens, like myself. After all, we are who is he working for. We are the ones he is representing. The majority of people I have spoken with appreciate Peter's efforts to inform us of what is going on and his determination to fight for what he believes is right for this county. They respect his experience.

There were four Fayette County citizens – two of them newspaper reporters - in the audience at the public hearing regarding this fiscal year’s 78-million-dollar budget. If the citizens of this great county don’t trouble themselves to attend an occasional commission meeting and find out for themselves what is going on, but instead depend on what is printed in the local newspaper, whose purpose is to print words that will sell its product, then they deserve exactly what they get when they cast their ballots having no yardstick with which to measure whether those words are truth or fiction.

Sorry for the late reply....

1. The new retirement plan hasn't been finalized at this point and the costs are undetermined at this point. Hence, until it is finalized and the costs are determined, I will reserve judgment.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan. 2. Do you have any numbers on what such a plan will cost taxpayers in 10 years, 20 years? If you don’t have the numbers, why not and why should we believe your projections?

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.