Regarding DSS ensuring the safety of children, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Note: FYI, please find below a few before and after pictures on how the Cleveland County Department of Social Services ensures the safety of Children. This DSS “Protected” child, thanks to the CCDSS, will now be “SAFE” and “Protected” for eternity.
Back to the Personnel Requests Budget Document:
“Or What???”
Robert A considers the Personnel Requests budget document should never have been included in this Budget Message PowerPoint Presentation by County Manager Brian Epley to begin with. This page 39 was not spoken about in the Commissioner’s meeting except to say that the FY2023 Budget included “10 new county employees.” And that was all. Mr. Epley, especially after I discovered the “hidden” $90 Million, now expanded to $140 Million that Robert A estimates will push $250 Million before it is completed cost for the new Justice Center Jail and Courthouse project in the FY2022 Budget. Epley has to know, from past experience, that Robert A closely reviews Budget documents looking for just these kinds of shenanigans.
Perhaps it was a “Freudian Slip” from Brian Epley to insert this particular page, in deep cover, in the FY2023 Budget documents. Epley figured that Robert A would find it, expose it, raise the issue with the commissioners and relieve his own conscious (if he has any) for whatever shenanigans are afoot. Although this is unlikely as the Commissioners, especially Chairman Kevin “Luke-Lite” Gordon says he doesn’t care what Robert A say or thinks or prints-even though he reads every word Robert A publishes, and sometimes even spell checks his typos, there is something to this conclusion. Perhaps County Manager Brian Epley, is NOT worried about his conscious; but his job. Knowing and witnessing the frequent aberrant behavior from Luke-Lite Gordon. The yelling and the screaming and the threats that Chairman Gordan is exhibiting more and more every day when he is questioned about even simple things to Gordon’s corrupt ways Luke Lite has let surface much bad behavior when he is flustered and challenged with the truth. Perhaps County Manager Brian Epley, as well as many other threatened county employees, would very much appreciate it if Robert A takes out Luke-Lite in the 2024 Elections and hopefully sooner? Staff feeling so threatened because they are working under a self-made madman.
Whether or not any of Epley’s speculated reasoning is true, the fact remains that the Cleveland County DSS and DSS Director Katie Swanson in particular have been dissed severely from the denial by the Commissioners to honor ANY of the 12 new employees requested by the DSS.
Now, let’s explore what Robert A would do if he were a commissioner.
Robert A would have the grit and the gall and the nerve and the understanding that if a Director of any Department overly requested additional employees to “pad” the bureaucracy or just fill additional seats at taxpayer expense, he would nip the problem in the bud. Right from the start. Robert A would never fail to instruct County staff on what his expectations are. If there was no need for hiring an additional 12 employees at CCDSS, the DSS Director would have known clearly NOT to request those 12 additional and unnecessary employees to begin with. There is nothing much Biblical about this issue. Just good management techniques and processes that Luke-Lite Gordon seems to totally lack. Or practice. Especially Common Sense.
Also, Robert A would never approve any $3.5 Million relocation of the DSS to the Health Department without good facts and figures to truly justify that expenditure. If the “Old” DSS Building was indeed at the end of its useful life, like 27 CCS School buildings, the DSS Building would have to stand in line with the priorities that I would set as a commissioner. New High Schools with equal facilities being top priority. More on that in future articles. As of right now, the DSS relocation and the building remodeling are going ahead at top speed-with no overall plans from the Commissioners or anybody else.
Stay tuned folks. Robert A is working on developing a School facility construction plan that will knock your socks off!!! Just doing what good citizens ought to do.
