Gordon Commissioners and administrators motto: "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is."

There are some county employees that take pride in their work but they are few and far between. Did everyone notice how the commissioners waited till after the public hearing to add the 6% employee insurance increase, school nurse, etc. to the budget. The commissioners new about the employee insurance increase weeks before the public hearing because since the county is self insured the commissioners decide how much the insurance will cost each year. The insurance has for years been well over a million dollars more than any surrounding county, all of which have many more county employees. At the end of the fiscal year there is always a large sum of county employee insurance money leftover. This money is not carried over to the next year and I have not been able to find out where this leftover money goes. Somehow the hundreds of thousands of dollars we overpay every year magically disappears. I assume it must be with the $91,000.00 that we over paid for telephone and electricity last year.

NEPOTISM ABOUNDS IN COUNTY EMPLOYEES, and it would be hard to believe that they got their jobs because they were QUALIFIED vs. "who do you know in Gordon County." I think they should all be fired, and "come here" people should be brought in to take their places to reveal/cull the ongoing graft and corruption. Those same fired employees should have to go somewhere else to get a taste of what its like to work in the real world where accountability is a "constant" in the workplace. Truth be told, they couldn't work any where else but in Calhoun/Gordon County, and the tax payers have to finance their ongoing (for example: property tax digest) incompetencies.

Nor...surfing the web during normal business hours.

Private sector doesn't offer on-duty, personal vehicle mechanic work/washing either.

POD, there's too much blood in your caffeine system.

MY job does not offer sick days, why should yours? The county employees pay very little compared the "real" world for insurance. PLUS all the paid government holidays the rest of us work. Don't look for a friendly shoulder here to cry on, I think there is more fat to trim!

POD "...meager wages"?

You have a right to your own opinion, but not the facts.

State and local government employees make $12 more per hour than private workers, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Comparing total compensation - wages plus benefits - the average private sector worker makes $27.73 per hour, compared to $39.81 for the average government worker.

Gordon taxpayers, "Do your friends a favor. Tell them to 'batten down the hatches', because there's a HARD RAIN coming"

and our leaders simply turn a blind eye to it.

The commissioners and Randy Are SCREWING the county employees - They are losing their sick-leave now too??? When the heck were you going to tell them? Fine notice to have to read it in the paper. Of course some of us depend on the meager wages you pay - which was studied and proven to be far behind other counties with similar demographics and we were promised over a period of time we'd be brought up to scale ---- Saw one small raise and nothing since.

I urge every citizen to vote out this county's commissioners and re-elect some that actually care about the people the do the Service to the counties citizens. "We cut the budget without cutting services to the citizens......." But they've done nothing but harm the 300or so employees.