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Amuse yourself and go ask the commissioners how many of them have insisted on implementing the financial controls that we adopted and implemented in 2005. Let me know the answer you get.

"But why would a family spend more money knowing that they would run out of savings in a couple of years?"

Know anybody who's run up their credit cards???


Yea, Myself, but then again Credit Cards is not savings either...lol...lol...lol...lol....


I wrote the county's financial policies, which we didn't have before I took office, and in there I put in the requirement for a reserve but could never get it past the the budget process. It was always cut out to lower the budget instead of actually making some deparments that seemed to be off limits to cuts decrease their budget. There never was a "reserve" account because of this.

Ben, I do understand this point, and I understand the Ole Way of doing the Budget. Much like we have went back to today. I agree that we need a County Financial Policy and a "Reserve" needs to be built into it. I'm not agin everthing you stood for and some of the hard work you had to do. But as "WE BOTH" have learned it is hard to work out the Good Ole Boy System with a Bull in a China Closet. It will as I have been told by many that "Things will never change here in Dade County" so we both threw up our hands and quit. That I UNDERSTAND!

Post subject: Now to be fair while on Budget talkPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:55 am



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Dade County Sheriff Patrick Cannon presented the Commission with concerns of the budget cuts. He said that his department has worked hard to cut their budget the 4.4% that the Commission requested, but he warns that officers are leaving Dade County and going to places like Walker County where they can make an additional $1 more an hour. He's also losing employees to TVA and to the Alabama Highway Patrol. "They've got to feed their families too." He said he understands the budget needs and he is a team player, but the cost to retrain new officers is also high. He said that the State is passing their budget crunch down to the counties causing the counties to have to take up the slack and he and the other 158 sheriffs of the State of Georgia are going to stand up and he urged the Commission to do the same stating, "This has to stop!"


Now in this weeks Sentinel... You DECIDE FOR YOURSELF. Nothing PERSONAL Patrick, but What are your saying?

In the Sheriff’s Department, no fewer than eight raises were awarded during 2010, all of them, said Sheriff Patrick Cannon, based on training steps completed. The department cannot always abide by a pay scale it adopted in happier times, said Cannon, but this year the achievement raises were enabled by some resignations early on. “The remainder of the year, we had some money left over to where we could shuffle a little bit here and a little bit there to advance people that were on the bottom of the food chain,” he said.

Cannon said such raises were necessary to encourage personnel to stay in Dade rather than migrate to other employers once the county had paid for their training, a perennial problem. “Dade County’s always been considered the training ground for law enforcement,” he said.