Does County government have the appropriate resources, financial and personnel, to achieve the objectives in our comprehensive plan?
Marcia Joseph (D): “That’s a real interesting question because right now we’re dealing with a planning staff that’s down several members because of the budget cuts that have been made recently… We don’t have the proper resources apparently at this point of time to be on a level playing field right now, and deal with the issues that we’re dealing with maybe six months ago, because our revenues have gone down… We really need to take a look at our comprehensive plan and decide what it is we want to do, again, as a community… If we’re down right now, in funding, it’s going to be a little bit difficult to decide we have the personnel when we don’t have the appropriate personnel right now.” Ken Boyd (R): “First I want to clarify one point because there is not budget cuts that are going on and causing a freeze in salaries. It’s a revenue shortfall, that’s what’s happening. We had projected to have a five percent increase in our revenues, and it is probably going to manifest itself at so
