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The City Council voted to fund the Director position for Downtown Development Commission, according to today’s Dispatch.
As a taxpayer I want to know if the Downtown Development Commission gave the City Council the reason the former director wa “Suspended” some months backs. We can ill afford to spend $35,000.00 per year for a director when we are losing good employees trying to stem the crime tide here.
How about it Council? How about it Dispatch?
I believe the HVDDC director was a city employee. If he was, then the manager would have suspended him, not the DDC.
Thanks for the correction Mingo. Then perhaps the City Manager owed the city council an explanation–and the “personnel matter ” excuse doesn’t fly –they’ll try to sweep it under the rug.
If deemed appropriate for the Council to know, the manager would have informed them as to the issues at hand and why the suspension was put in place.
A “personnel matter” excuse? doesn’t fly? I don’t understand what you are saying. I think it absolutely would be a personnel issue, and that is not for public knowledge. (employees of the City have rights too). I feel sure the manager would handle such issues with professional and appropriate deliberation, which I think would include informing the Council. That would be in a closed session, not for public consumption ( see above comments about employyees’ rights).
Just because you want to know what happened doesn’t mean you should know.
I can see your point Mingo, however,it would be nice to know IF the city council knew what happened–it might have made a difference on allocating funds for next year.
How “interesting” is it that one of Henderson’s Landlords a.k.a. Henderson’s SlumLords is appealing to the city/county for $$$ so that the REEF project may be able to get more public $$$. Wonder when Vance County wake up and see that the people who sit around on the porches and do there thang are feeding from the public trough so much that it’s about to run dry. I found an interesting statistic/article while doing a lil’ research on the Social Services Dept. in Vance County. It opened in 1971 with a total of 7 employees due to what was termed “an increase in public needs for assistance”. I bet the Social Services Dept. now employs over 100 and keeps giving $$ to those members of society who don’t want to work or better themselves…..but would rather sit back and drank the Public’s Kool Aid!!! Sooner or later the Kool Aid won’t have the same amount of sugar and hopefully those who tend to drink it will have to get off there backsides and go to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This speaks to your comments Deception, as well as to another thread about litter. I think that if you need and receive public aid, then you should be willing to give back some work effort for that aid. I mean, nothing in life should be free. I think this would would instill that in people, and would also re-introduce work ethic back into families that have not worked in a generation, and their children are not seeing work as part of the family tradition. Just picking up litter along the roads in your neighborhood could be a great benefit to the community, and could be the “giving back” for the assistance the community is giving to the person in need of that help. Quid pro quo.
I think it would help public perception that people do not want to work, or just want to live off others, and the community in total would enjoy the benefit.
Mingo: Nice ideas but these LAZY…DO NOTHING FOLKS wouldn’t work in a pie factory tasting pies for an honest living!!! They would rather sit on there porches or walk the neighborHOOD with there dogs trying to be something that they aren’t. My question is where are all the CHURCHES to help with what is fast becoming a “lost generation” due to teen pregnancy, dropouts, drug dealers, drug users, etc.? Where are the self proclaimed “community activists” who love to run to the city council meetings when they think a member of Law Enforcement has “wronged” lil’ johhny b/c they ask him to turn his music down or to pull up his pants? If you pay attention you will know of the self proclaimed ‘community activist’ of whom I speak. One of the self proclaimed activist doesn’t even live in the area but does have family ties who according to Crime Statistics have had numerous run-ins with the LAW!! One thing is for sure in Vance County….you have taught children that you don’t have to work hard to better yourselves but rather you just have to sit back and wait on the next Govt. Assistance Program. Last time I checked they were giving out free cell phones? WOW!! What’s next? New IPADS? New LAPTOPS? The bad part is that some of the COUNTRY CLUB boys are just as guilty b/c they are receiving a FAT CHECK from the govt. to help with the subsidized housing that some of the tenants reside in. Talk about ‘white collar’ activities? “INTERESTING” to say the least!!!
Well said, Deception