Board Exempts Positions from Hiring Freeze

As of Thursday, May 19, 2011

Ten full-time positions and three part-time positions have been exempted from the hiring freeze adopted by the Moore County Board of Commissioners earlier this month.

At a Tuesday night meeting the board agreed to exempt one planner position, one public utilities operator position, four social workers, two income maintenance workers, a social services office assistant, one full-time driver and three part-time drivers.

Human Resources Director Denise Brook presented the exemptions as requested by department heads. The hiring freeze applies only to non-essential positions and is in effect only until adoption of the 2011-12 budget, which goes into effect July 1.

“These positions are currently funded and are needed,” said Commissioner Tim Lea, who made the motion to approve the exemptions.

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None 2 years ago

So much for Craig Kennedy's motion. Does this circus seem a bit familier? Two words: Clown College. Next move will be COLA's for those who may retire soon and sweeten their nest eggs at the taxpayers expense. Families that stick together are birds of a feather.

None 2 years ago

I wonder how many applicants will apply for those positions since Boles and Blake have chosen to not support a single measure to extend unemployment benefits? Maybe they already have people in waiting for those positions....

Mark106 2 years ago

These positions are open because people are quitting left & right.

Tarheelgal 2 years ago

These positions are open because long time employees are being given the shaft by the county and are leaving in a hurry especially in the planning and zoning department!

None 2 years ago

Toda, county employees have not had any type of raise in 3 years. Some are having a tough time.

None 2 years ago

starman ~ turnover in some organizations is germane to having a stable budget. Albeit, if a person has maxed out their paygrade and leaves a position, then the person coming in is at the low end of the pay scale. That is one school of thought. The other is management decisions vs. budget considerations. T. Cary McSwain is given his instructions from the Board of Commissioners. His instuctions are clear. Reduce the existing budget by a percentage rate by evaluating departments and forcing reductions to bring proposed budgets into a predetermined profile to fit their model for government operations. Taxpayers resist more taxation of any kind since the Feds, State, and local governments all have their hands in our pockets. It's a matter of management and politics. The latter being the driving force behind all elected officials decisions. All I can say is next election attend functions, read what incumbants have said or exactly what they have done or not done to your way of thinking. But look at what facts are available and ask lots of questions. Then changes may come along with raises. Tommy

None 2 years ago

Sounds like some of the county departments need to be looked at a little closer, shouldn't be a lot a lot of turn over in these tough times ?

None 2 years ago

I agree airportu. According to the local ESC Office in Aberdeen, on an average their are 900 applicants for a single job opening. I have worked for county government in the past and have first hand knowledge what stress employees are under working in politically charged environments. In most cases, many of those same employees were hired due to who they put down as references on their applications or a telephone call works wonders in the hiring process. If an employee quits, they cannot receive unemployment benefits so as my grandma used to say, "they cut off their nose to spite their face". I read where there may be COLA increases for employees who may consider retiring in the near future and for those earning 6 figures, that could go a long way with retirement. But that's another feature story....

Bflat 2 years ago

It costs more just for employees to get to work, and with no raise and it looking like there won't be a raise for a long time...people will move on to other jobs. I hope that will be taken into consideration come the next election at the voting booths. Remember...the JAIL was more important than taking care of county employees and more important than properly funding the schools. One thing that was pointed out during the whole mess to do with the JAIL (location, size & costs) was that the county employees had not gotten raises in 3 years.