
{"id":6943,"date":"2009-09-10T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:24:27","slug":"interim-county-manager-offers-candid-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/09\/10\/interim-county-manager-offers-candid-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim county manager offers candid assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners have scheduled a work session for Thursday to review a detailed assessment of county policies, procedures and organization compiled by interim County Manager Frank Clifton.<\/p>\n<p>Clifton took over from former manager Laura Blackmon, who stepped down June 30.<br \/>\nIn his review, Clifton interviewed employees and department heads and toured county facilities. His 65-page assessment offers an unvarnished review of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s challenges.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among his suggestions are:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 create sunset dates when new boards and commissions are created to give county leaders a regular opportunity to review their functions and performace;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 create a county-wide non-profit foundation to help finance civic priorities;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 improve space and equipment for county health clinics;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 increase interdepartmental cooperartion and coordination;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 conduct a comprehensive review of library services;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 update software and improve performace in tax assessment, collections and land records;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 monitor and ensure uniform enforcement of the hotel\/motel tax;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 review retirement plans, particularly the way the county handles post-retirement health care coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Emergency Services Building in Hillsborough.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Staff reports <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners have scheduled a work session for Thursday to review a detailed assessment of county policies, procedures and organization compiled by interim County Manager Frank Clifton. Clifton took over from former manager Laura Blackmon, who stepped down June 30. In his review, Clifton interviewed employees and department heads and toured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}