Lean times at the Probation Department
September 22nd, 2006 by Atomictumor
The much maligned probation department in Anderson County has somehow, over the course of two months, fallen $20,000 in debt, and requiring director, drunken lawyer enthusiast, and political man-about-town Alan Beauchamp to hold his hat in front of the AC commissioners Monday night to ask for this money.
There was one time that I got a $5000 income tax return, and had it all spent in two weeks, which would be about the same overall time frame we’re looking at here. Maybe the ACPD needed to pay off some credit card bills, get a leg up on the mortgage payments, perhaps a nice getaway to Asheville with its best gal, some new computer parts, something like that?
Anyway, AT2 has more details, including asking the hard questions:
“Question- isn’t the budget put together long before it’s approved in July? So Mr. Lynch’s and Mr. Beauchamp’s decision to dissolve probation was made long before it was announced in September or this too important position was just being cut? Which is it? …
Enough money or in the hole? How can it be that two and half months into the fiscal year and they are running a deficit? Weren’t we told that this program made money? Weren’t we told it was successful?…”
Give em both barrels, AT2.