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Acting County Manager ^iggestions for him. 1
Arthur Edward Jones dis- think Mr. Browning does
cussed current issues fac- to?ing
county government in Also, last year the probSeptember
28 interview lems were unique -- a
with tlie Chronicle news combination of decreasing
staff. Following are excer- revenues and inflaton contipts
from his remarks. nuing to hit us in ao.?
Q- What can the citizens of number of things. That
Forsyth County expert dor- really made a more
lng the next few months difficult process than usual,
from their government? budget process is
a-well, that's a good quest- always a difficult one becaion.
I would suggest you use t*le ear^er -vou 8el
attend today's meeting of started and the better the
the Board of Commission- schedule you make, the
ers. I gave the board a list more yon can reduce the
?of priorities last week. last-minute rush ?n^ ^
this afternoon and in addi- it s not anything you can
tion to those priorities, at ever do away "" *s ^at
our department meeting cl?ser y?u 8et t0 the
this week, I got^a page time ttle budget; is going
worth of additional kinds of t0 be presented to the
concerns, that will also be Board of County Commiss-:
given to the board. I think *onersr your revenue estithe
answer to your quest- mates change.
ion, will be determined this You 8et better estimates on
afternoon. what money in the current
I think that priority list, al- budget isn't going to
though the board might be spent. You get better
have some additional ones estimates on federal or
and maybe reorder it a bit; 1 sta^e revenues. That chadon't
expect that there are n8es? a* least on the revegoing
to be too many-major nue_side, whaj you might
additions or deletions. have to do on taxes.
. .. Even when that budget is
Q- What are tome of the adopted, those are estimaconcerns
the department tes? iust as expenditures
beads brought to your atte- side is an estimate. You
ntton? don't know absolutely that
A- Some of theirs were int- y?u're 8oin? t0 spend $500
ernal, administrative things ^or offices supplies.
such as updating the administrative
procedures man- Q" What opportunities wo*
ual. It's gotten to the point citizen? have before the
where it's really a little out ctaal adoption of the bndof
date Some of the geMP^IpSTonihe proceu?
policies have been changed^ don't think we've ever
and the manual has never Put the requests from^the
really been updated. departments on file in the
- Mr^Fulp (environmental?public library^ We have in
affairs director) mentioned previous years, had public
that the implications of the hearings along in February
Clean Air act of 1977 are or March, which I think
upon us. were very good opportunity
Someone brought up the for the public to have an
question of group hospital impact and to have !. an
insurance for county retir- opportunity to voice their
ed, opinions about what they
Mr. Roberts (library direct- do want and what they
or)mentioned site selection don't want.
Jot the branch libraries. Nobody wants taxes and
There,was a very strong te- everybody wants services,
eling from the. departments- Butr~ those- hearings havethat
they would like to been the time most tradireview
the budgetary pro- tionally used for public
cess with the county mana- input. The commissioners
ger- ' ? ?have been presents and so.
Performance evaluations nave the manager and all
were another issue that was the department heads,
brought up= ^ ~ If somebody says 'I wish
the Clemmons Library coQ
Could yon briefly give an uld be open more hours,
outline of the budget pro- then the library director is
ce?a when dudtow are there to hear it, as well as
and how people ***" have an the commissioners.
Impact on the budget? We've never had anything
'mr. Jenkins is going to be the city's Focus hearback,
perhaps very soon, *n8s- We've never had
and that is something I anything start that early,
would get into only if he
isn't back by the first of Q-putalde the public bearDecember.
tags, doea the public really
The budget process, as far have much impact on the
as the budget and manag- budget?
ement office and the mana- A- Well, I would say the
ger are concerned, really public is always free to call
starts around the edn of the commissioners, to talk
October and early Novem- with department heads if
ber, in terms of developing they have some specific
a calendar for when the
forms will go out to the
departments and when they - " Mm Ware
expected to back and all
this sort of thing -- a whole ^ Jg mi
calendar that would take ^ 7 ^
you up to the day that the M
budget would be adopted |J
by the board.
Within the next few weeks, _ _
the budget office will begin
developing procedures and
forms. I would hope that , Men s, women's and children'
we can sit down with the popular casual boot made of
, . . . . ? . genuine suede Tan
department heads and get
their feedback. It's a lot of Men s sizes 712 R?S- 511.97
work and 1 know they h.ve Womon s sizos 5"10' 510
issues that they feel need to 700^7sizos3,/'
be addressed.
Dn-ff
wwr1 noy. ji?
Q-1 aoderttaiid the budget Men's high bulk orion socks
wa a very exhansting one available in a variety of colors
hit time. Hmve you given
any thought to w?yi to
streamline the proc? so Reg. $9.97
there In not as K|p ^ Children s sport casual msdG (
.. . ^ "7*1^ suede, has puffed side treatmi
wont loon on the stanr stitching, and action sole Rus
A-1 think, again, it's a very ? .
little oit out of place for me Nothing sel
to get into that too far ?1.) 2670 Potore croi
because I think Mr. Jenkins Nor?h"*~
will be here and it will be 4J bioi?C^J*?c?
his process. I've got some
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thing they want taken care talking about the time for te 1
of -- the department heads i
are always there for them to ambulance to get to the i
call and talk to. patient. The time to the
-r\ x hospital, I don't look at 1
V/l ^ 7 |l J 7 7 7\\ t^at. That is not the (
[ft significant time. *
KT| !f The significant time is the
|0 I i| time it takes to have an
1L I ambualance and crew at the t
I ^ scene where the patient s 1
I ^ ill or injured because they
^ can Just a w^ole lot to
It's just a matter^- in one stabilize that person. I
sense, we're always here theory now in emergand
there are those people ency medicine is to stabilize i
who call us all the time, but that Patient before yoiL ever :
it's limited basically ?to if move' *11lr1, ^?"?won t?1
LJ, _ f. ,mr /"lihTTtiwr1 nun .sa
thatth^ca^ndothat^id^^"*'^"^"8^u''?^asrwTtn^i
it ? ? ai vr ???i
iney Qmj ? pmicui in uicrc, IOU 11 1
What can happen is that see them running full blast i
get one person's point of *? 8^t there. Once they've ,1
view and he may speak for stabilized him, it's much 1
one person and maybe^ rep- better on the patient to 1
resents one or two other or ^ave a nice, smooth, calm 1
five hundred, you never r^e *? hospital. / t
know. 1
But, in terms of real advert- Q-1 nndf raUnd that you <
ised type hearings, that's m looking to tee whether a
about it.~ I would hate to vmcancy be filled 1
$ay that's the only way, whenever one occnrt. Have
but you would have to y?u #aved po?ltiona? i
exercise your own initia- A-1 don t know if we have i
^jve or not. I would doubt at this <
time if ther have been too <
?Qr^juHHhfriigtd In many. Mr. Jenkins had
term! of ambulance aer- a^ready been doing that
vice? before the commissioners <
A- What I sent to the board brought i* UPwas
a report I had prepared 1
in which 1 attempted to Q-Do you feel your effect!- ,
determine how many amb- vene## l# because 1
ulances and crews it would ^ou *** manager?
take to assure that there A-It makes it difficult to
would be an ambulance P^an very ^ar ahead. I don t
available to respond to any .want to make committemergency
95 per cent of~rocnts over things about
the time and 99 per cent of which Mr. Jenkins is going
the time. . ZT to have to preside. *__!]
What I found was that in u T^ere are some exceptions
terms of emergency calls, to that, for instance, the
six ambulances and crews ^eyno^s Health Center/
available 24 hours a day Public Health situation.
would assure that 95 per ^ board has been very
cent probability. supportive of me, very anxI'm
not making a recomm- *ous to move on* Th? one
endation right now, but it area *n have been a
will be something to look at rc^uctant t0 8ct l?to
at budget time. has been in 11,6 manager's
We are very close to that immediate staff. There are
right now. The board some vacancies.
approved an additional am- ^ would be, especially in
bul&nct uuti ticw in this light of (fit newspapei artiyear's
budget and I'm not c,e saying Mr^ Jenkins hassure
how soon they will be been released, unwise for
in operation. It primarily me to 8? ahead with trying
depends on how long it t0
takes for that vechicle to be If he were going to be out ?
delivered. That's not a I would probably 7
quick process. just have to because we're
just frankly short of people
Q- How many ambulance* and that's hindering our 1
are on doty now? ? ability to address the needs
A- When that one comes ^at e*ist.
there will be five emerg- Q- Haa your staff come op
ency units on duty 24 hours * proc??* f?r dealing
a day, seven days a week. Re>110,d# HemJth Cen'
Monday through Friday,
, J ? j A- Vnc n?*'c
mere are tnree non-emerg- AIIBV 3
ency or convalscent units we're ?oin8 t0 be discuss"
available nine hours a day. in8 with the board of com"
missioners, mostly just a
time frame. I ll be meeting
Q- It the response time slg- with Dennis Magovern and
nftficantly greater for people Tom Dundon next Tuesday
on the east side of town morning.
now that the hospital Is on I'll probably spend the
the west side? entire morening with them,
A- When we're talking a- including a complete tour of
bout response time we're Reynolds Health and the
I 3*U prices good thru Sunday.
VRslDm Master Charge or Visa welcome.
lH Iw^lV- Open evenings and Sunday 1-6p.m.
ralues
iriAAC yfl \
lis our shoes better than our shoes.
* Farkwsv (K-flwt Piaaa ? Next to Food World)
rty Itrtct (Cleeed Sundays)
n| C?nttr
Mb Road ?.) 2?42 Wau^newm Stwt
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Public Health activities ther
n the Ridge Avenue buildng
? ? -- - -Paul
Fulton and Greg g
3ethea have compiled a list M
)f things that we have sent J
o' both Tom and Dennis,
equesting information that
hey provide us including ?
heir own recommendations
:or what should take place.
Q- What kind of inform*ion
are you seeking? .
A- It's pretty basic informition.
One thing is what
services are they providing*. _
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? ? m ?>?% Mi Hit." ? ?t?
?r nrirt i C<tfjipJlmT^Tnnr^ , t.
?F th? mos"t" Important" tUTT"' ~ ? ? urnim ^
igs - to? inventory what
.ve're doing -- to see if I
there are overlaps or gaps, \
the organizational struc- ~~ MPi
turerzWe'd like to be able || ,
to review the minutes of the WAfllEJ
two boards function and the WI 111
kinds of issues they consider.
We've asked them for }^e Wlntton-Si
their recommendations and cannot afford to
we've also asked them to keep you inform
explain or detail any inter- The Chronicle ii
relationships between the all...BY YOU! 1
services and administration change with it.
Df the two departments. perspective on
really going on
Q- What deadline* are yon
operating under?
A- The board hasn't set llllllllllllllll
any deadlines, but they're 5 The W|ngt0
real anxious to do this. It's n p 0 Box 31
been a couple of years this wlnston-Sal
has been hanging around.
I've put a deadline on Please start this subsi
myself of having a recom- I
mendation by the first mee- 2 NAME
ting in November. ^STREET":
That's really not very B .
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long. I've already sent this jjj ? -- ? ?
request for information to STATE
Tom and Dennis and I'd J ^jp
like to have it when I meet ^ "
with them Tuesday. Cert
ainly I would hope by the J
end of next week.
JIM
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