- County's Bill for Incompetent Security Guards Goes Up Again
Posted August 17, 2009
According to an August 11th story in the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fulton County, having already paid $620,888 toward the multi-million-dollar cost of
defending the convicted murderer of four people (and the bringer of misery to dozens of lives) after he escaped from county
custody, has been presented a bill for a further $747,924 in expenses connected with conducting the murder trial.
And is the calibre of security guards employed by Fulton County better than it was before the trial? You who work in
any of the relatively few county libraries who are assigned one of these officers know the answer to that question.
- Some Retired County Employees Drawing Pensions AND Salaries
Posted July 22, 2009
"Double-dipping" from the county treasury has been going on in Fulton County for years, an outrage that hasn't seemed to
phase county commissioners until this month.
For example, just how long now has a highly-paid administrator in the county's personnel department been "advising" the
county since his "retirement"? And how many others of his ilk are currently on the county's full-time and part-time rosters,
even if they aren't paid as handsomely as this particular individual?
According to a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the commissioners are still going to allow retirees to draw
both a county salary and a county pension
for as long as six months a year.
Actually, the resolution the Commissioners passed in
July merely asks for a report on current practices, which have long included the six-months-of-double-dipping-is-OK proviso.
- Cost of Killer Brian Nichols' Trial: Over $3,200,000
Posted July 22, 2009
The money to pay for Nichols' trial was taken from both the county's and the state's treasuries. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
has some of the recently-released details.
You would be profoundly mistaken to assume that the breathtaking price tag of the murderer's trial - or the
murder of a library manager several years before Nichols' murderous rampage - resulted in the county's commissioners making
arrangements for top-notch security guards at county facilities (or, at most libraries, any security guards at all).
- Federal Fines So Far for Fulton County's Sewage Spills into Chattahoochee: $687,676
Posted March 24, 2009
The fines date back to a ten-year-old court order. And the problems are far from fixed,
according to a
story in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Unfortunately, the county isn't obliged to publicize the portion of its budget devoted to paying various fines resulting
from court orders and lawsuits.
- Federal Judge Threatens Fulton County Commissioners with Fines and/or Imprisonment
Posted January 28, 2009
Instead of complying with earlier court orders, the commissioners recently cut the budget for the county's jail, making it
even more likely that the county will be noncompliant with numerous court orders handed down over the past few years. Perhaps
this latest
development will get the commissioners' attention?
- Fours Years and a One Federal Lawsuit Later, County Jail is Still a Mess
Posted January 13, 2009
And county commissioners wonder why everybody who can rid themselves of entanglements with Fulton County
Government is trying to do that, having plenty of evidence that the county cannot, or will not, reform itself.
Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an
update on one of several county departments in chronic disarray, the county-operated jail.
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