HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_0842Commissioner Robertson said he still had not heard what a quantifiable threshold
for success would be during the next year. He said the system shouldn't be called a pilot
program until someone could explain the measure of success. Robertson said gauging the
pilot program's success on how many people called and complained was not a good
system. He said he would not feel comfortable with that being the criteria.
Commissioner Johnson said "pilot program" did have the connotation that it would
be measured to see how it worked. He withdrew the term "pilot," and stated it would be a
trial program.
Commissioner Robertson said that even with a trial program, the sheriffs
department should develop some measures or criteria that defined success. He said the
definition for success should be set now, and not a year from now.
Johnson said documentation was needed for reclassifications even though this was
not a part of the sheriffs merit system request.
OTIO by Commissioner Robertson to accept the sheriffs proposal for a
performance appraisal system without a limitation or cap of two percent and for the
system to be reviewed with the Sheriffs Department and the Human Resources
Department in one year to determine if the program would continue.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
NEW BUSINESS
SUSPENSION OF BOARD'S RULES TO ALLOW NATIONAL ANTHEM
TO BE PERFORMED: OTIO by Commissioner Williams to suspend the
board's Rules of Procedure regarding the agenda guidelines for the purpose of allowing a
group to sing the National Anthem at the first meeting in September and for this agenda
adjustment to be only for the September 6 meeting.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
APPRECIATION LETTER FROM SONS OF CONFEDERATE
VETERANS: Commissioner Johnson said a letter of thanks had been sent to him for
the Vance House Museum's $2,500 appropriation. Johnson said the "Carolinas
Campaign" was a statewide historical trail that followed the events of the Civil War in
North Carolina, and the Vance House Museum would be listed in a pamphlet as a site
destination.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BUDGET: Commissioner Johnson said he
wanted to issue a warning to the county's taxpayers. Johnson said in other states,
legislators had made decisions that impacted the budgets of local governments, and this
was occurring in Raleigh. He said, increasingly, decisions were being made in the
legislature that impacted the budgets of local government, and the commissioners were
having diminishing control. Mr. Johnson said a larger and larger percentage of the
money the county spent was dictated and mandated in Raleigh. He cited Medicaid as
an example. Johnson said it was becoming less important who was being elected on the
local level since the decisions were being made in Raleigh. Mr. Johnson said the state
budget was $17.2 billion, up by $1.6 billion, with state revenues being up by ten
percent, but the Raleigh officials were saying they didn't have enough money.
Mr. Johnson said the state officials had no wisdom in their spending, and an example
was spending $400,000 on a teapot museum. He said there was estimate that "pet
projects" would cost $50 million. Mr. Johnson said state government was not a
democratic republic rather it was an oligarchy with a few people who had appointed
themselves as the rulers.