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Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:43 AM
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By Kathy Chaffin
kchaffin@salisburypost.com
County Commissioner Jim Sides said he would like to see an efficiency committee started three years ago by the Rowan County Department of Social Services implemented in other county departments.
Sides, who represents the county commissioners on the Board of Social Services, said the committee tries to come up with ways to save money within the department. "This is an extremely good idea," he said.
Rising gas prices are starting to affect middle-income families, he said, especially now that gas prices are driving up other costs. "It's sort of a domino effect," he said at Tuesday's Board of Social Services meeting. "Groceries are just astronomical, and people are beginning to see that."
Even though Social Services employees may be feeling the greatest impact of the poor economy because of increased applications for public assistance programs, Sides said other departments are affected, too. The planning and permit departments, for example, have less work because people are building less.
Ultimately, he said, less new construction will have a detrimental effect on the county tax base, making it even more important to "look at ways to cut back and save money."
The efficiency committee was one of the goals outlined in the department's annual Leading by Results report a few years back.
Also at Tuesday's meeting, board members re-elected Dr. Nilous Avery as chairman and Carl Ford as vice chairman. "Thank you so much for your confidence," Avery said.
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Ways DSS can save.... : Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:35 PM
What level of education do you have? You can barely put a sentence together! What we need is for people to stay in school,get a good education, get off their lazy butts and get a job so they don't have to stand in line at DSS! As for your comment on Latinos chosing to have babies to be on medicaid, they aren't the only race chosing to do this. Look around, it's every race doing it now!
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ways DSS can save : Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:18 PM
don't give day of delivery medicaid to illegals. if if don't have insurance i have to pay my hospital and dr bills they should to. they got pregnant because they wanted to have a child a legal citizen let them pay for them. oh and the baby will have medicaid for the next 15months. don't give presumptive medicaid to everyone that walks into the health dept. screen them first. a number of the ones standing in line don't have jobs and aren't going to get one. why should they they have medicaid food stamps and an SSI check. there are those that are standing in that line that really need the help and i say get it. but the ones that are to lazy to work we need to have something done about. i see a number of people in rowan that need medicaid or food stamp but according to DSS they make $10 to much or $3 to much. i also see those in the grocery store w/food stamps and medicaid wearing fancy and expensive cloth getting in a Lincoln Navigator (fully loaded). how is this saving rowan county money. we need a better screening system. we need something big to happen
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DSS : Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:11 AM
If someone was at DSS they probably needed assistance. They may not have had the extra money to pay for copies. Good Job DSS
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DSS efficiency committee looks for ways to save : Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:34 AM
I went to DSS a couple months ago because I was laid off from my job. I have been back several times and I can think of one way to cut back. Start charging customers for copies. I was in line and saw the 6 people ahead of me hand the secretaries papers to make copies and they were not charged. I am sure that adds up over the course of one month??
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