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By Jay King
Staff Writer
Discussions about the budget during two back-to-back meetings by the Holly Springs Fire and Rescue Commission have failed to answer the question of whether the department can afford a fulltime chief, at least as far as most of the commissioners are concerned.
A budget workshop Friday at which Chief Lee Jeffcoat presented figures based income projections provided by the county auditor demonstrated the nature of the impasse between the department administration and the board. Chairman Ryan Phillips repeatedly questioned the chief about where he got the numbers used in his budgets and how he arrived at his figures.
Another called meeting Monday saw the board vote to seek bids on daily bookkeeping services, an independent auditor and an attorney to review the department’s standard operating procedures. After the commission’s business was handled, commissioners took a series of questions from the roughly 50 people present, many of those questions growing heated.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Inman Times.
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