"One alternative that appears to have political support is the closing of DeKalb’s north police precinct and cutting the size of the Police Department.Time to look at the take home car policy too. Read more here.
The loss of Brookhaven alone will cost DeKalb about $25 million in lost property taxes, business fees and other taxes. At the same time, 70 of the 101 officers in the north precinct will no longer be needed to patrol Brookhaven streets".
Monday, December 10, 2012
Brace Yourselves Cause Here It Comes!
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Furloughs...I'm sure that's coming too...
Hey Radar while you are at it how bout cutting a couple of Commisioner jobs. We no longer 7 Commisioners for Dekalb County. How many millions of waist will that cut.
Don't worry folks, it will be put on YOUR backs as usual. If you're dumb enough to continue to work there prepare for a 10 ticket a day requirement to make ends meet. After all, what's one an hour, or two for that matter. You can do it with a smile :)...
Here's an idea. Go ahead and close north. Reassign the officers to high call areas such as Tucker and south. Veterans are always telling stories about roll calls with 20+ officers, no shortage of backup, and a manageable workload. Then downsize the top end. We have so many chiefs it's absurd and we could pay for several line level officers per chief. We actually have an opportunity here to resolve some longstanding issues with service coverage and manpower. If we get rid of territory, it means more officers to cover what's left. Of course the "wisdom" in charge will probably do something that flies in the face of logic and fiscal sense. We shall see.
Here come the "unpaid holidays" !
Until uniform starts taking care of the units they have now....you can scream all you want about take home cars...not a happening thing....I've told you once...I've told you 100 times.....Lavista gets the monthly report from Motor Maint.on Rays Rd. They also see how many units are being wrecked due to carelessness...you can try and say what ever you would like....but those monthly reports sure SPEAKS VOLUMES.
Until then...you may want to take a second look at what you leave under the seats!!!
Reality check people. We don't have 1100 officers. We might have around 900. The only "eliminations" will be of positions that are already vacant, creating a paper savings on a non-existent expense.
This kind of stupidity is why this county is so screwed up.
The county's plan to save money is to not fill vacancies!?!
We are going to save money by not hiring people to replace people who do not work here?! Are you freaking kidding me? That's like saying you're going to save money by not by a new Ferrari to replace the non-existent Ferrari in your garage! "Look how much money I saved by not buying a new Ferrari!"
If we have all of these budgeted jobs that are not being filled, where is all of that money going? If we have a budget for 1100 officers every year, but we only put 900 on the street, where is the rest of the money going? Why are we being told there is no money for raises when they are approving budgets for 1100 officers, but only getting 900??
If we are budgeted for 1100 officers, but we are getting the job done with only 900 officers, shouldn't those 900 officers get the money allocated for the 1100??
Let's start by looking at the $150,000.00 a year jobs crated for Ellis friends. After that's done We will look at the next set of cuts.
Get ready for CID new hours.How many will leave for better a place to work.How many will be lost from uniform as replacements.
We all need the extra jobs to make up for no raises or merit increases.
900 officers?? your kidding right?? we have no more than 600 and 100 of those are in CID. We have approximately 400 working Uniform within the precincts. Dont let this place fool you.
Strike Force/DUI/Special Ops/k9 equals 25
so does each precinct average over 200 officers?
The poster who talked about the vacant positions is spot on. Where does the money go?
Funny thing, the citizens have a breakdown on their taxes and included in that is a special tax code for the police department. Now the AJC ran an article stating THE POLICE tax digest had an excess of 12 MILLION dollars. Funny how not a penny of that went to the police department.
The CITIZENS need to "Rise Up" (go Falcons) and demand the money they pay for their police goes to the police!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This should be brought up at every BOC meeting. Where's that pissed-off South DeKalb taxpayer rep? Bet she could light a fire!!
Good point 11:52, but we can hire a new guy from Atlanta to replace Stogner at $236,000 a year. This place really values its Police Officers.....NOT
If we are short 100 officers, if you assume an officer costs the county $50,000 a year in salary and benefits, that's about $5,000,000 a year sitting around some where. If we have 900 officers, that would enough money to give each officer a bonus of $5,500.
We've been short by at least 50 to 100 officers for how many years straight? Where's all that money and why can't it go to the officers we have?
Can any one tell me why we have a transportation department in DeKalb County and why we are paying David Fisher so much money to take worthless photos. Lets also look at the number of departments that have people making over $150.000.00 a year and supervising less then 3 people. If Ellis and that bunch are serious about cuts lets start in Decatur first.
The county can and will put a badge on whatever they need to to keep collecting property and sales taxes. Sad but true and the B.O.C. are not missing a second of sleep over any department in the county. Utimately they are not personably liable and not held accountable, as evidenced by the elections? Do you personally offer anything that they just can't do without? If you want respect go to a different department, period. DeKalb is a broke shrinking county and disco isn't coming back, so sticking around for times like the 70's is a waste of your time. As long as you don't show up at B.O.C. meetings in force, keep humping call after call with no back-up (per county policy), filling your ticket quotas (illegal by the way), AND STABBING EACH OTHER IN THE BACK, you will get the same old same old. Dignity and self-respect don't always come cheap.
Sick Jerry Myer Jackson Jr on em....but some of us need to show up with him
Serenity Now
Some good comments from some employees venting about getting screwed over by DeKalb ruling politicians.
I understand your pain.
I watched good employees discouraged by low pay and lack of opportunity walk, as new directors and managers were hired at exorbitant salaries for low performance political jobs while the guys and girls working their asses off receive 15 percent less than local market government wages.
DeKalb rulers decided to forgo a reorganization three to four years ago in hope that somehow the economic situation would get better, pissed off Brookhaven citizens, and generally managed to frack-up the wet-dream known as DeKalb County.
I knew there would eventually come a time of reckoning, when the financial reality and cold, hard numbers finally sink in.
I suspect 2013 will be the year that the disastrous mistakes of the CEO/BOC come to a head. This should of been taken care of three years ago.
The commissioners have got to know that losing Dunwoody was a huge mistake. After shooting themselves in the foot with Dunwoody, they carefully aimed and fired into the other foot known as Brookhaven.
There is no other way to put this.
Collectively, the DeKalb CEO/BOC rulers have legally proven they are insane.
The employees are going to pay the price, not the politicians or political staff.
The AJC and Champion will studiously ignore the whole mess.
Best of luck!
KenC
They have bigger problems headed their way, BELIEVE me... Feds are almost ready to drop the bomb on public corruption and as everyone knows there's more of it in Dekalb and has been for years than anywhere else. Why do you think our chief wants to disconnect asap?
The feds,...if I had a dollar for every time I heard that. Durret and Frank are the only fish they'll fry.
Yep, they started dropping the dime on one another months ago in order to save themselves. The one with the most dirt gets the best deal as you know.
our 2 best prosecutors are leaving- clearly it' s time to leave.
I'd say you are probably correct if Mark Winne's story has any merit. It appears they are making their way from Gwinnett into Rockdale now so I imagine public corruption charges in Dekalb will be made public very soon.
Speaking of high paid do nothing jobs, Nancy Funny does not even manage anyone but kept her high salary. All because she was a failure at managing code enforcement. Are the free tacos back on at Matador?
What is Nancy Funny's job anyway? We hated her in C.E. for a good reason. Now she seems to have no job duties at all, just wondering around.
Supposedly she is in charge of building security for county facilities. At least this is what I have heard. Can anyone elaborate on where she is assigned or what if any responsibilities she has. Six figure salary and we don't even know what she does. Sure the budget talk today produced more we are broke sad song & dance.
Budget out today. No furloughs. Adding 25 officers.
Guess PD won't be seeing a raise again this year.
From the AJC article on the budget/tax increases in Dekalb: "the proposed budget calls for spending $600,000 towards the construction of a new animal shelter and $1.5 million to pay for a 3 percent raise for county workers earning below $37,700 a year."
Forget the 50 new officers and give that money to the officers you already have!
Y'all just don't see the big picture. Raises for sanitation because they screamed "union." it really is as simple as that.
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