Eleventh Hour County Business

Once again Mason County Commissioners have not been paying attention to the business at hand.

The Sheriff's deputies bargaining unit have had a signed agreement from the county since August 2009 settling on how they get paid for their uniforms. Basically the deputies want a separate check. Now to get this separate check to the deputies in the "eleventh hour" of 2009 will take extraordinary effort by Don Gardner's accounting firm which you and I will pay for.

When the Commissioners were briefed on this by the Sheriff's office on Dec 14, they could have taken action to get this resolved in-house and in a more orderly fashion. They didn't. Commissioner Ring Erickson wanted more information but then she went on leave. Commissioner Gallagher stated that he knew this had to be paid but he didn't force the issue with Ring Erickson. Tim was absent from this briefing.