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I dont have a problem with the continuation of the giving them the money as long as goals are set and met for them along with audits.

Anyone believing we are only giving the hospital 500k for 3 years is fooling themselves. This will be in many respects an ongoing effort, I don't foresee the hospital being self sufficient for at least 5 years. I mean it could be worse Yadkin Community Hospital just closed Friday. So that's 20 less beds in that County and 150 people lost their jobs. I don't want to see our Hospital close because without it, we'll have a much harder time being attractive to tourists and industry.

If the reserve balance has already been increasing as you've said, then basically they have already been sticking this new sales tax in the general fund and blowing it, as Fins told everyone would happen

It concerns me now as to how much else they have been hiding and covering up from the public tax payers.

I have admitted that I was too quick to judge giving the hospital the 500 grand. From the looks of the budgets and the fund balance where will they be pissing the 500 grand away after 3 years?

Yeah, last year the register of deeds had money left in her budget and thought she made a profit

Basking the source on here claiming the reserve funds for the county were low is a liar. The fund balance had been consistently over 24% for the last three years even with them dipping into it. Notice in the proposed budget the manager is predicting it to grow 1.4 more million. We are constantly being lied to by the county.

Departments have been not spending all of the money budgeted them especially dss.

The transmittal letter is very important. Yearick is warning about the budget hole and the trick of budgeting fund balance and then turning off spending so as not to eat that money in that current fiscal year. It would be interesting to know how lapsed salaries are being handled, although lapsed salaries probably aren't that high given the nature of employment in the County.

The budget numbers are easy to fudge, the actual cash balance is the real number - what is the cash on hand at June 30 AFTER everything has been reconciled back to the old year.

I once found a recreation department spending 60% or so of it's next year's budget in May and June of year A, and having the vendors post-date the bills to Year B after July 1. On top of that the Accounts Payable was cutting so many checks in July that the town was nearly bankrupt come August due to a lack of cash flow.

Just for the heck of it I clicked the link and it opened. Weird.

So we lost almost 400 million in property value with the reevaluation. Those sales they used 4 years ago dried up.

It's a PDF, so if your pdf software of browser plugin is out of date it might not open. Download the newest Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also you can right click on the link and select save target and download the document to your computer. It might open better that way

I had no trouble opening the link.

Opens quickly on Chrome and Android

Wont open. Used 2 browsers.

I gotta do everything for you?? http://goo.gl/jsAo5g

The proposed budget and this budget are listed but neither will open. Typical.

I also know now the mouth breathers dont get mileage, the county keeps them a vehicle to drive. Hence the reason they want to buy the toyota high lander from Boone toyota.

$80k is pretty good legal fees if you're also getting insurance and retirement. I bet any attorney in Ashe County would jump at that, not having to pay rent or salaries. I know Watauga contracts out their legal work and so does wilkes. Ashe court for dss cases is very slow and about a forth of those two counties. I guess Ashe doesn't think that's a lot in the scheme of things.

80 grand a year is not a big amount for a full time attorney. The legal work has to get done and it's either contract it out or have your own. That's not much more than you pay your tax collector. Considering the educational level required that's a bargain. I would question what kind of attorney you can buy for 80 grand. Maybe that's what you need to look at.

No Wilkes doesn't have a DSS attorney but they end up paying $204,234 in legal fees to outside attorneys to represent DSS - that's also in addition to the Wilkes county attorney numbnut. And they may be large geographically but they certainly aren't the second largest in poplulation which is what drives DSS cases upward. I guarantee Watauga paid legal fees as well and didn't list them on the SOG paperwork. Take a look for yourself

http://sogpubs.unc.edu/elec...dsatty.pdf

Whats wrong with meeting at Hardees? I'm sure alot of world issues have been solved there in the corner...

No .

Kilby is the county attorney, not Dss

I guess ashe needs 2 attorneys on their payrole

Would you want to depend on John Kilby?