Gloucester, VA County Employees Continue To Shop On Your Tax Dollars

Monday, May 12th, 2014, we saw this county government vehicle pull into the parking lot and the employee go into Dollar General at about 10:30 AM.  The employee was in the store for about 15 minutes.  Why are county employees going shopping when they are supposed to be working and again as we continue to point out, in violation of county employment policies no less.  If they had to buy supplies, for one, this is not the way the county should be spending money, they have catalogs where they can order whatever goods they need and spend less money and pay no taxes than buying from national retailers.  Which also brings up the next question, if they are buying supplies in this way, are they paying taxes using money we paid in taxes for them to waste like this adding extra burdens on us all?

  If this was personal shopping, why are we paying them to shop and drive all over the county to do so?  It does not look like this issue will ever be solved.  The county government thinks your pockets are so deep that they can spend all your money any way they see fit?  This after the Board of Supervisors spent a great deal of energy holding the line to prevent taxes from going up?  Something has to give and it may just be your wallet in the next round come 2015.

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Gloucester, VA Government Employees Shopping On Your Tax Dollars?

Monday, May 5th, 2014 starting at 10:04 AM, this county vehicle and the employee with the county were seen going into Family Dollar and as the bottom picture shows, coming out of the store with no apparent purchase.  Time last picture was taken was 10:12 AM.  We can not tell you the reason for this employee going to a retail store on the other side of the county in a county vehicle, but again, it looks like personal use of a county vehicle for shopping while we the taxpayers pay for this.

  Over the past few months we have seen county department heads go before the Board of Supervisors with reasons why they need increased budgets yet here we see that county employees have way to much time on their hands and are not even working which means they are over bloated in their budgets and payrolls.  Let's all hope the Board of Supervisors point this out as they look at the 2015 through 2019 budgets for the various departments.

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Gloucester, VA County Employees At Hardees December 10th, 2013

We caught yet another Gloucester County government employee using a county vehicle for personal use against county and state ordinances and codes.  Breaking the law.  Costing each of us money in added taxes.  We continue to see that county officials have no control over their department managers and that the department managers have no control over their employees.  Employees do whatever they want at taxpayer expense.  The continuing disregard for waste fraud and abuse by county officials is so clear it's ridiculous.  This was Tuesday morning, December 10th, 2013 and at the Hardees in the Courthouse area.

  Guess county officials are trying to see if we can collect pictures of all their vehicles at the local fast food restaurants.  Cheap way of doing an inventory?  Maybe we should start a collector card series?  Wonder what we will catch today?

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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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