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| 2/2/2009 4:58:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | High-handed move
by commissioners
Editorial
The County Commission holds the upper hand, but took the low road to get there, concerning the work hour decrease they dealt to several county offices.
To help balance the county budget, and based on a promise of equal treatment, Collector Ruthane Small, Treasurer Nancy Davis, Auditor Kay Reynolds, Recorder Janet Jones and Public Administrator Nancy Jo Jennings agreed to reduce their full-time employees to 35- rather than 40-hour weeks.
But after the agreement, they learned the commission budgeted staff in some offices at 40 per week. Confronted with this news, Presiding Commissioner Bill Brenner labeled the situation "an oversight." But at the next meeting after his oversight declaration, the commission changed nothing.
Under such circumstances, officeholders and anyone else should think twice about the worth of a commission agreement.
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