Gloucester, VA County Employees Continue To Abuse Taxpayers

6:45 AM Monday morning, December 9th, 2013 this county auto was seen at McDonald's.  The giveaway that it's a county employee?  The license plate.

8:30 AM.  Parks and Recreation vehicle number 67.  Monday morning December 9th, 2013.

We will give some credit, county employees have slowed down being found where they do not belong, but they are still doing this on a daily basis.  We have been out every week and we see them every week.  We are not always able to get photos though.  Mr Happy Meals on Wheels from the county school system has been seen at 7-Eleven and McDonald's numerous times but has managed to evade our cameras.

Last Monday, December 2nd, 2013 This deputy no sooner goes on duty that he decides that he needs breakfast.  It's McDonald's in Hayes by Farm Fresh.  Now to be fair, these guys do need to eat and they, without question, are stuck in their vehicles throughout most of the day.  It's a very tough job no matter what anyone thinks.  The issue however is grabbing food just after you get on duty?  You could not eat before going to work like everyone else has to?  If we are to look to these people for examples, what are the examples being set?

  We said it before, as long as county employees are out violating the law, we are going to continue to catch them and show everyone how our tax dollars are being wasted.  It is very clear that we have no leadership in the county.  None of the officials have the backbone to stop this waste and abuse and clear violations to the public trust.  Taxes are going up and here is part of the reason why.  We have been reporting on this since April of this year.  That's 9 months now and it's still not under control?  We only report these issues when we have the actual photographic evidence.  Like we said, we have caught plenty of other county employees but they got lucky and managed to avoid our cameras.

  Maybe the new members of the Board of Supervisors will put a screeching halt to all of this come January.  We expect they will.  We have some good people coming in and we are expecting some solid management coming in and moving forward.

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Gloucester, VA Officials Improper Use of Credit Cards?

What we are about to cover comes from sources deemed valid, however, proof is not available so it falls into the category of word on the street.  Therefore we report the following information more as a story of fiction based on information obtained.

Our first story is of one Gloucester official who used a county government issued credit card to finance a personal affair he was having with a person out of the area.  County officials found out about the fraud when the guys wife turned him in.  Charges on the card were for tickets and a county vehicle was being used for personal use in the affair.  What did county officials do?  Nothing from what we were informed other than protect him from the charges.  County officials who wanted him charged were backed off from the case.

  In another story, we have a county official who decided to go out and get plastered at one of the local establishments and at the end of the evening decided to pay for her private party with a county issued credit card.  She made the mistake of leaving the credit card at the local establishment who had to trace her down to give her the credit card back.  Lucky for all of us the establishment has such a professional and dedicated staff to perform such a duty as we all could have been stuck with all kinds of credit card fraud charges.

  What happened to this employee?  Well the employee still has her job.  She just has to live with the story and hope that we never get our hands on it.  How much corruption do we have to report here every week?  Our county officials are out of control at every level and having a party on your dime.  That dime used to be a nickle.  That dime is about to become a quarter.  It keeps getting worse the more we dig and it's now coming in from all over these days.

  What's even worse?  County officials are still balancing the books even with this kind of stuff going on.  Can someone please explain that to us?  And you wonder why your taxes are high and going ever higher?  We never read this part of the Virginia Constitution.

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Gloucester, VA Schools, Petty Cash Funds, (Part 6 of 10)

Armand A. Fusco, Ed.D.

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Question 6: Petty Cash Funds:

 

Who has control of each petty cash fund, in what amounts, and how are the 

funds monitored? 

 

Background: Such cash funds are usually distributed to managers, 

administrators, and sometimes teachers to take care of incidental expenses. 

Because they are cash funds, it is easy to misuse and misappropriate the 

dollars. 

 

Proposed Solution: Receipts must be submitted with an explanation 

when replacement dollars are requested. It is up to the finance officer to 

monitor the petty cash funds. A monthly accounting should also be submitted 

to the superintendent, and board chairman or board finance committee. 

Send this information to the school board and demand answers.  It's the only way to ensure your money is not being wasted.

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Gloucester, VA Government Employees Happy Meal, Literally

This is a picture from behind McDonald's up at the courthouse area in Gloucester, Virginia on Monday morning, 8:20 AM September 16th, 2013.

This is a picture of yet another Gloucester, County Government vehicle parked at McDonald's at 8:20 AM Monday morning.  Numerous occupants inside having breakfast, most likely on the payroll clock, at your expense, using a county vehicle for personal use yet again.  Well maybe this picture is a little hard to tell that the white truck is actually a county vehicle.

This is a closeup of that vehicle.  Public Utilities truck number 20.  Guess they were inside having happy meals?  Was this the only vehicle seen at McDonald's or anywhere else today?  Heck no.  I saw two other county vehicles come out of McDonald's before I took out the camera today.  I saw another county vehicle at 7-11 before taking out the camera today.  I saw a brand new Van, unmarked, State government tags, full size, silver, at Dollar General today at about 10:000 AM.  The occupant, a female, was shopping  on payroll time.

Over the past several months, I have been posting pictures and information sent to one of our email accounts about this kind of abuse going on in the county.  I wanted to see it myself.  Sure enough, it is everywhere.  Nothing has been done to stop this despite the fact we have shown county and state codes that forbid this kind of abuse.

  All that is left at this point is to file and request an investigation into the county for waste, fraud and abuse.  The person ultimately responsible should be fired for cause.  I am going to file for those investigations to take place as soon as possible.  I will testify myself to what I have seen and all the evidence I have collected.  This is your tax dollars being wasted by a county who keeps playing shell games to raise your taxes even further, writes ordinances to abuse county residents in our opinion, and can not follow their own ordinances or state codes but still want you to and will prosecute you at the drop of a hat.

  Exactly how is this fair?   County officials continue to show they are criminals with no regard for the law.  (We are using their own terms against them as this is what they have told numerous people whom they have filed charges, using county ordinances, against area residents that were not in accordance with state code and managed to get full prosecutions against them).  A rigged court system, again in our opinion.

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Gloucester, VA Officials Honor Animal Cruelty Criminal?

It's a sad day when you see something like this.  The chair of the Gloucester County, Virginia Board of Supervisor's, Louise Theberge, honoring a person whom we had just shown to be one of Gloucester County's biggest criminals in our view.  A person who was responsible for protecting animals in Gloucester but has been shown to actually be abusing animals in a very cruel and inhumane manner, according to Gloucester County Animal Control Ordinances, as shown in a previous post prior to this meeting, which we know the Board of Supervisors saw before this meeting, as we sent them the post link as well as a PDF version of the story.  The post based on Gloucester Animal Control's own laws and pictures showing how they do not follow their own codes.

  What next?  Why not just open all the jail cell doors and let all the other criminals out and give them all county government jobs with letters of recognition for their contributions to the community?  Actually, when you see this kind of behavior, you have to wonder if the criminals in the jails are criminals or just people who got sucker punched by a corrupt system?  This is what you see in a dictatorship.  Does Louise Theberge consider herself a dictator?  It looks that way.

Here is the PDF version of the story sent to a large list of Gloucester and other government officials a day before this meeting.

Gloucester Animal Control In Violation of Ordinances? from Chuck Thompson

The above PDF file is 9 pages long.  To read the story in full screen mode, just left click the icon at the very bottom right hand side of the SlideShare container.  To escape full screen mode, just hit your escape key on your keyboard.

But then again, these are the same people who allow their employees to run all over the county, in government vehicles, using those vehicles for personal use against county policy and all at taxpayer expenses.  And of course during this board meeting, you see how these same people could care less about raising your taxes save a few minor arguments.  Someone has to fund all of this nonsense.  Since it's our tax dollars, can anyone just call the county and get a ride to wherever they need to go?  A taxi service since that is what county employees are already doing anyway?  Seems fair to us if they are going to continue to abuse the system at every turn.

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Gloucester, VA Taxes Will Be Going Up

In a 4 to 2 vote with one absent, the Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors voted to increase taxes on all county residents despite arguments against.

The issue before the county board last night was the school bond issue.  17 million dollars was approved by the Board of Supervisors with 4 voting yes, one absent and two voting no.  A number of legal issues are seen in this and we will be covering all the material for the rest of this month.

  What is not questioned, money desperately needed for school repairs.  Though no evidence of this need was provided by those seeking money for the repairs, we have no reason to doubt the need.  What was in fact brought up, why was money spent on reconstruction of one school closed and now being converted into county office space when these people already have office space?  Money that should have been used for the much needed school repairs?  This was a very reasonable question that was brought up and ignored.

  As we predicted and told everyone here on this site, the bond issue was going to be passed no matter what.  Another area brought up during this meeting that you may have missed, the talk about closing yet another school in the county.  You read that right, talk has already started about closing another school in the county and yet a 12 million dollar bond was approved to assist in the funding of a new middle school.

  Again, the question was brought up asking the Board of Supervisors, how much money did they leave on the table by not rebuilding the old Page Middle school.  The Gloucester Board of Supervisors simply refuse to answer that question.  What are they hiding from the public?  The two board members who voted against this pure waste, Ashley Chriscoe, at large representative and Andrew James, Ware District representative.  Bravo to these two brave men for standing up for what was right.  Absent from the vote and the floor last night was Christopher Hutson, Gloucester Point representative.  

  Three board members voted yes who are leaving the board at the end of the year, so had little to lose.  Or do they?  We will be exploring more on the legal issues surrounding this matter.  We will also be putting the video here on this site.  There are a number of issues everyone needs to see.  And again we will be showing what the state says about how these matters must be legally handled and we do not see this matter being properly structured to meet the law.

  All of this on top of all the local waste these officials are allowing to continue with employees using government vehicles for personal use.  These folks have no shame.  There were a number of other issues we found during this meeting that we are going to explore that have all the marks of higher costs due to lower usage.  Stay tuned, we are going to cover what the papers will not touch and what you need to know.