Vance County Board of Commissioners will hold a special called meeting on Wednesday, December 17th at 12:00 noon in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room. The purpose is to enter into closed session to discuss a personnel matter. Action may be taken in open session after the closed session.
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On December 17th, the county commissioners will meet behind closed doors for the second time in eight days. This past Tuesday’s closed door meeting was attended by six of the seven commissioners to interview the two candidates applying for the interim county manager position. Officially there was no announcement at the conclusion of the closed door meeting. So one can assume that next Wednesday’s closed door meeting will be to interview additional candidate(s) or to select one of the only two interviewed. What’s the rush? The commissioners have known since their August commissioner’s meeting they needed to find a new county manager. The sitting county manager had announced his retirement one day before a $379,000 embezzlement scheme was publicly disclosed. A seven year long embezzlement scheme purportedly accomplished because of poor management and accounting controls in the county’s finance department. The county commissioners did not terminate the county manager for his lack of fiduciary responsibilities as the senior manager of county’s the administration. Instead they accepted his offer to resign in five months and get his retirement package. In the corporate world that is known as a golden parachute. Internal politics has blocked an aggressive pursuit for a new county manager these past five months. Now with little more than a dozen business days before the year ends commissioners are frantically looking for an interim county manager. Just another example of this county’s long running leadership style: ready, fire, aim.
Bobbitt, you are right on target!!
What about the Stephen guy, can never remember his last name, who was finance manager for the county who quit about a year ago, why did he leave, where is he now and what does he have to say about the embezzling by his employee, did he hire her? How could it ever have happened and how did the County manager not catch it and how did the auditors not catch it and how did the finance director not catch it, especially after the bank bag turned up missing? Where is the money now? You don’t hear it talked about much, maybe it just doesn’t bother some people but it makes me furious when I write our huge County personal property tax check every September and wonder what in the world is going to happen to the money? Michael, I agree that the manager who was on watch should have been canned without a dime in retirement because isn’t watching the money the most important job and responsibility a County Manager has and he had epic failure on that point? But of course the County Commissioners should meet in private to interview the future candidates, how could that be done publicly?
My guess is somehow, as usually happens, the Commissioners had finally forged a 4-3 decision on the manager position. It would be prudent to hire someone from outside Vance County who has experience in dealing with matters from a different experience set, a different viewpoint, but that would be visionary for this group ( not going to happen in my opinion)
They will hire someone w/ties to a locally elected official…..watch and see.
As far as the County Manager w/the golden parachute…..seems like he had his cake and ate it too!!
Vance County needs some “new blood” in the governing bodies and not the same ole’ stale farts who have occupied the seats around the table for way too long. How many of the county commissioners serve “at the will” of the people w/o personal agendas? I’d say less than 1/4 of them. Remember the apartments that went over businesses on Garnett St? Mike Inscoe’s daughters reaped the benefits of that $$$. It may not be in Inscoe’s name but if it’s his daughter(s) then he shouldn’t have been allowed to even have a say in the process….much less a VOTE on it!!
You need not wonder why Henderson and Vance County are in the financial position they’re in….look no further than the mirror if you’re a citizen b/c if my memory serves me correct NOT ONE PERSON challenged the incumbents for the seat. Keep electing the self-servers and they will continue to self-serve!!!
County Manager hire will be either a relative or it will be Jordan McMillan(whose ex-mother in-law) is on the Vance County Board of Education. Watch and see………I’ll have my popcorn ready!!!
BTW……Reavis…a.k.a. the County Crook will not serve 1 day behind bars….whether in be in jail or prison. Remember the wager that was discussed on HiH a couple of months ago…….needless to say I’m not worried about being “outed”!!!
It is my opinion that these commissioners, when meeting behind closed doors, have not been making decisions to the best interest of us taxpayers. But they keep getting reelected and that is a serious problem. To paraphrase the late humorist Lewis Grizzard–“They’re meeting behind closed doors; and they are up to sometthin’.
This is what I understand is the point of tomorrow’s closed door commissioners meeting (1) to interview another candidate(s) for interim county manager or (2) to select one of the two who have interviewed. Two were interviewed a week ago behind closed doors without any announcement or communications. Each interview was 30 minutes in total duration.
I agree that the commissioners need to hold closed door meeting especially when considering who they want to be the county’s manager. I don’t agree that the taxpayers’ should pay for their lunch. Meals should be at commissioners’ own personal expense not the taxpayers.
I believe the rush to find an interim county manager signals the results of a behind the scenes 4 – 3 vote. The commissioners are searching for county manager.
This morning’s called meeting of the county commissioners went into closed session at 11:46. I asked if there would be an announcement. I was told not to expect one. Meeting attendees included six of the seven elected commissioners, plus Jerry Asycue, County Manager, David Beck, Director of Finance, Argretta Johen, Human Resources Director, and Jonathan Care, County Attorney.
The floor is open to the speculators.
Maybe they let Jerry Ayscue go back w/them so he can explain what “not to do” when it comes to being fiscally responsible. The county crook(who doesn’t look like she has sense to get out of the rain) STOLE your tax dollars right out from under County Manager Jerry Ayscue’s nose!!!
Now who says Vance County isn’t proactive!!!! LOL!!! You can’t make this stuff up!!!