Does the County have a Credit and Collections Dept?

At last nights commission meeting the commissioner of Dist 2 brought up an issue about a business who rents from the County without notifying the Company that the issue would be discussed. This issue has to do with the collection of rent due. Why wasn't this issue taken care of by County Staff? Since the County is in the rental business does it have a credit and collections dept, that a staff member is in charge of? Does the commissioners realize that everytime these kind of events take place at a County Commission meeting it defeats any possibility of Economic Development? Marketing is everything and if you read the last blog you will see that the County Administrator knows that. Please stop public humiliation of the businesses in Hendry County by having the County Administration implement Policy and procedures for Credit and collections.

Politics as usual

At tonights County Commission meeting in Clewiston. Part time planner Jim LaRue showed up to play politics just to secure his gravy part time job. He made sure he told just how wonderful Lester Baird was and how much money he had gotten for the County and how smart the Commissioners were for employing Baird. This was his only reason for being paid to attend this meeting. When are the commissioners going to wake up an smell the roses. I hope the commissioners are as smart as the audience and realize what is going on with Baird and LaRue.

Jim LaRue who lives in North Fort Myers has been on the payroll for at least 12 years as a part time planner for our County. Why do we have people planning the future for the tax payers of Hendry County who don't even live or Vote in Hendry County?