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 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 County Employees Continuing Abuses - Readers Respond

Reader Comment Left On Abuses Continue Post:

"Oh and this is just the tip of the ice berg. Watch them as they all drive "slowly" back to the office at lunch time to take their "full" lunch break then return to where it is they are working.


Has anyone been watching grounds?There's a guy that drives around in a huge gas guzzler truck. Why?"

Our Comments;  Gas guzzler truck, why does a county employee drive around in one of those?  Simple, it's not their money they are wasting, it's ours.  So who cares?  We all should.  Get pictures and share them with us.  The only way to stop these abuses is to show them.  It's our money, not theirs.  It's our duty to catch them and have this nonsense stopped.  County officials are out of control at every level and they need to be held accountable.  Go to our contact us section,  There you can send emails to us with those pictures.  Together we can make a difference.  We need everyone's help to stop the pure waste of our money and the continuing tramping on of our rights and freedoms.  These are the same people who have no concern about violating their own ordinances.  They are criminals with no regard for the law, in our view, unless it violates your rights and your pocket.  You can't afford to drive a gas guzzler because you have to pay for them to do it for you instead.

Thank you for the comment.

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Board of Supervisor's Meeting Video August, 2013 - Gloucester, VA

Gloucester County, Virginia Board of Supervisor's meeting video from August 6th, 2013.  Meeting started at 7:00 PM.  Here is what you missed if you did not see it live.  We will be picking all of this apart for the rest of this month.  If they take the video down, we will post the video on YouTube as we already have a copy of it.  There are a lot of serious issues here folks.  This is also where you get to see how the Board has just raised your taxes more than you can imagine.  From the people who bring you county waste on a grand scale, watch more of it here.

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.

  

Gloucester, Virginia Abuses Continue

Waste, Fraud and Abuse - Virginia Codes from Chuck Thompson

Gloucester County officials continue to prove that they have no control over their employees and no regard for state laws or codes.  This is yet another Gloucester County, Virginia official vehicle being used for personal use at the drive up window once again at Hardee's in the Gloucester Courthouse area.  Vehicle number 273, white van with county emblem in the side.  School board.  Time pictures were taken is 7:20 AM.

Another shot from another person of van number 273 at 7:20 AM this morning, August 5th, 2013 at Hardee's.

To top this off, Animal Control was seen leaving this area at 7:13 AM this morning.  No pictures could be taken in time according to our sources.  

  Again, these are the same people who are going to tell you tomorrow night, why they need 17 million dollars to build a school that they say is needed after closing another school down the street they say is not needed.  Is the money going for covering the practices of waste and abuse as we keep seeing here?  

  While writing this article, more pictures of more Gloucester County employees at Hardee's this morning are still coming in.  And we do not mean just one more.  We are getting flooded with these.

Hardee's (Photo credit: Wikipedia)