The Carroll County Board of Supervisors is deciding whether or not to combine the county’s sanitation office with the Tax Assessor/Collector’s office.
Sanitation Clerk Dorothy Prewitt has tenured her resignation and will resign at the end of the year. Supervisor Claude Fluker said he, Tax Assessor Wilton Neal, and Rogan Jackson all talked about the possibility of combining the offices.
Neal suggesting leaving the sanitation budget where it is for now. He told Supervisors he would discuss the matter more at the next board meeting.
“If we’re doing tags [placing holds on them because of unpaid garbage bills] then we should be taking in [payment for both], not paying part over here and going to pay part over there,” Neal said.
Jackson said right now $45,000 has been budgeted just for personal expenses, which includes Prewitt’s salary, the leeway to hire a part-time person if needed, benefits and fringes. She said by combining the offices, it would save the county a substantial amount of money.
Neal estimated it would save the county around $20,000. He said each of the five employees – three in Carrollton and two in Vaiden -- would assume a role to be determined later. He said his workers would see an increase because it would increase their duties.
“I understand giving them a little extra because of the extra work, and they’ll want extra,” Supervisor Jim Neill said.
He said Allison Marshall, who does the collection of the unpaid garbage bills, has been doing a great job and would take responsibility of a good portion of the work which would consist of generating the reports for the Carrollton and Vaiden offices.
Neal said Montgomery County is doing the same thing, but they are moving their sanitation clerk into the tax assessor’s office.
“We’re not doing that,” he said.
Neal said when tax season hits, they will need help and would call on Prewitt to come in and help during that time.
“Especially in the beginning,” he said.
The item was tabled and will be discussed further at the board’s meeting next month in Vaiden.
