“No more duties to Chief of Staff job” |
| No more duties to Chief of Staff job Posted: 26 Oct 2010 07:01 PM PDT CONYERS — Rockdale County Chief of Staff Greg Pridgeon will not see a change in his duties after a vote Tuesday by the Board of Commissioners to remove a measure to revise his job description from further consideration. The vote was 2-1 to remove the item from the agenda with Commissioner JaNice Van Ness voting against. The measure was up for a second reading and vote that would change the duties of the chief of staff position to report to the entire Board of Commissioners instead of directly to the BOC chairman. Van Ness introduced the ordinance change two weeks ago which passed 2-1 with Commission Chairman Richard Oden voting no. On Tuesday, she made a first motion to go into executive session and then to table the vote until the next BOC meeting. Both her motions died without a second. Commissioner Oz Nesbitt then made a motion to remove the measure from the agenda. Oden gave a second to the motion. "This was on the table after it passed a first reading, and I'm shocked that we do not have this second reading," she said. Van Ness said she proposed the change to the chief of staff position because she felt Pridgeon had not done a good job of informing her and Nesbitt of county administration matters. She complained about Pridgeon's lack of communication to the part-time commissioners during debate on eliminating positions in the county government for budget cutting moves. Van Ness told Oden during the meeting that she had not seen the change in Pridgeon's work as she had hoped for. "You publicly recommended that he follows your guidance to serve all three of us and he did not do so," Van Ness said in discussion during the meeting. "And, therefore, Mr. Chairman, I am greatly concerned on how you will manage him in the future to make sure we are served and all of the residents are being served." Nesbitt said he had talked to the chief of staff and studied the issue and that Van Ness's "allegations against Mr. Pridgeon were unfounded" and he believed Pridgeon was well qualified for his position. "I think Greg Pridgeon has the skills to communicate with the chairman and both commissioners," Nesbitt said. "I also feel strongly that through this discussion and debate that his attention has certainly been captured." The debate heated up when Van Ness introduced the job change two weeks ago and revealed that Pridgeon responded by seeking a 10 percent pay raise. Public response to the news had been heavily against Pridgeon's request due to the fact that the county cut $1.4 million from the budget this year, raised the property tax millage rate and reduced the county work force. In the Oct. 12 meeting, Nesbitt considered allowing the county's human resources office conduct a salary study on the chief of staff based on his proposed new duties when Van Ness mentioned Pridgeon's pay increase request. Any discussion of the pay raise ended with Tuesday's vote to keep Pridgeon's duties unchanged. "I am not in agreement and was not in agreement two weeks ago for him in seeking an increase in salary," Nesbitt said. "I think it would be a great blow to the employees of this county and I would have never have supported moving forward on that direction." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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