Say it isn't so Commissioners Conley, Barton, Ingalsbe, Ford, Judge Sumter, Road Chief Borcherding
Who's minding the store?
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Did you know that:
A) Since the County Road Department went on 4 10-hour days, overtime pay has spiralled out of control. In one month alone, the overtime for County road employees has been anywhere from 24 to 100 hours paid at time and a half!
Amazingly, the Road Supervisors are not salaried. They are hourly, too, and they get the same time and a half overtime pay, at their higher salaries!
B) Hays County is having to buy new equipment because the recently purchased equipment (about a year ago) is already abused and no longer in good enough condition to run properly.
C) The Hays County supervisors are about to get new pickup trucks to ride around in. The ones they have now are about 2 years old.
D) Hays County recently purchased a new road oil base that doesn't stick to the road surface, so all the roads done, with that poor quality road oil base, will have to be redone.
E) An unbelievable fact is that Hays County has class A and class B CDL drivers ON THEIR PAYROLL that are actually flagging traffic for other trucking companies that are hired out by Hays County! Hays County does not use the truck drivers they already have on their payrolls to drive the trucks for the road jobs. Instead, they hire out to other trucking companies. This is a gross under-utilization of the qualified manpower they already have!
Yet, they have the nerve to ask the taxpayers for $207 MILLION. Why throw money at a problem where the solution is simply to have proper management and less waste.
1 comment:
The article makes some sense in the need for better management possibly, but then the last line was completely ignorant. Look again at the list of road projects - only a few are County roads - this road bond is to fix State highways! Ones that are in need of upgrades whether or not we grow anymore than we have already grown!
The State of Texas will not allow the County Road Department to do the work (or private contractors, unless they have been approved by TXDOT). So the two issues are COMPLETELY DISCONNECTED - ASKING FOR $207 MILLION DOLLARS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ROAD DEPARTMENT ARE NON-SEQUITERS! * UNRELATED (LIKE BARACK OBAMA'S SICK GRANDMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUT MAKES GREAT SCHLOCK FOR IGNORING THE QUESTIONS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE!)
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