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Chairman Scurlock noted that there are 20 positions in Road <br />& Bridge alone that need to be filled. He was concerned because <br />we have had a real bad budget year and this Commission went out <br />and bit the bullet, improved our reserves and did some things <br />that were not particularly popular. County residents got a 20% <br />tax increase this year, and he would hate to get to the end of <br />the year and have 35 or 40 positions go unfilled for 6 months or <br />so out of the year and turn up with half a million dollar surplus <br />in salary accounts. <br />Commissioner Bird emphasized that the main thing is that we <br />would be charging more and giving less services, because of the <br />unfilled positions, and Administrator Balczun assured the Board <br />that they will try to fill all those positions, but some are <br />going to be harder to fill than others. <br />Commissioner Bird had some problems with the qualifications <br />for the Purchasing Manager's position, and felt that maybe we <br />were asking for someone that was far more qualified than we need <br />and that we would have to pay him more than what the job really <br />required. He just wasn't sure that at its present population and <br />present level of government, Indian River County needed someone <br />with those kind of credentials in that position. Perhaps at <br />sometime in the future, we might need someone with a master's <br />degree in economics to be our purchasing manager, but in the <br />meantime he felt we needed someone with common sense and the <br />aggressiveness of a bulldog to go out and find the best prices. <br />Chairman Scurlock believed that you have to be extremely <br />careful in the requirements requested for a particular position, <br />because if you make the process so complicated, it might <br />discourage people before you even get a chance to look at them. <br />61 <br />5 1988 <br />BOOK 70 F 530 <br />