Court documents from the county administrator’s latest
appearance in Municipal Court show that he resides on Turtle Lane in Brandon,
Mississippi. Let’s be clear, we do not
have an issue about where the County Administrator resides, Brandon – Tunica or
Timbuktu! In short, if he can do the
job, he should be able to live anywhere.
The problem with the County Administrator, is not where he
resides, it is with his job performance!
In two short years, under the County Administrator’s leadership, backed
by a voting block primarily made up of three elected Supervisors, has resulted
in:
- Illegally discontinuing funding to the Tunica County School System and the Town of Tunica.
- Illegally raising taxes on every citizen and business located within Tunica County for fiscal year 2015 and continuing that illegal practice in 2016.
- Depleting the county general fund asset balance from $11.1 million in 2011 to $800,000 in 2016 in estimated cash as of October 1, 2016, and depleting the county road fund by $5 million during that period.
- No audit of the county during his administration. Why is it that our self-proclaimed “forensic auditor”/county administrator does not provide the citizens of Tunica County with this state mandated function of county government?
- An expose on Tunica County in the Washington Post brought on at the invitation of the county administrator. Deplorable housing in Tunica County? Are we not spending over $10,000 per month administering a housing program? The administrator is benefiting but whose home is being worked on?
These actions by our County Administrator have resulted in
unnecessary litigation that has cost the county hundreds of thousands of
dollars in legal fees. We say hundreds
of thousands because we don’t actually know the figure. It’s been asked, but not answered.
These are just a few of the accomplishments made by our
current county administrator during his two years here in Tunica.
Also the illegally raised taxes for 2014 we've already paid and may never see a refund
ReplyDeleteRumor has it that now as broke as we are "supposed" to be, $750,000.00 (along with a government grant) has been approved to extend a sewer line from Hollywood down Woolfolk Rd to a "planned subdivision"...will this be like another Verner Rd project that doesn't get finished...I'm all for progress BUT this so called "planned subdivision" is a private "for profit" enterprise IN PLANNING...there are hundreds if not thousand or so homes already built, being lived in that don't have sewer... when I wanted water extended 2 miles to my home, I was told to hire it done AT MY EXPENSE to their specs and then they would take it over. For sewer I had to install a $4,500 treatment plant at my own expense.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to stop this.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to stop this.
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