“Discussing county staffing, Griffin said employees’ pay cannot remain flat much longer while the county also attempts to provide the same degree of professional services. Employee morale and retention has already been affected by pay increases that averaged about 1 percent over the past four years.
“The problem I have is that we have police officers on our force four years and they’re training people coming out of the police academy and they both have the same pay,” Griffin said. His proposed budget includes money for a 2.18 percent pay hike, which he said is in line with inflation and raises in other regional jurisdictions, including the federal government.”
The police force is bloated and pisses away money like a drunken sailor….fire a dozen cops, cut their existing budget…. do that and you make the county a safer place and save a fortune.
