A motion made during this week’s meeting of the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors died for lack of a second, and that did not sit well with one supervisor.
District 1 Supervisor Glenn Donald brought up at the end of the meeting restoring five custodians back to full-time pay and benefits. Those five individuals apparently had been cut from 40 hours to 19 hours during budgeting.
But Donald said since the county found a windfall from taxes assessed against the solar farm in Ruleville, those employees should be full-time again.
“And then you find out you’ve got this right at $3 million, wouldn’t you restore these people to their rightful jobs,” Donald said.
Donald told The Enterprise-Tocsin he was the lone vote two weeks ago against reducing the hours and insurance benefits to start with.
He made the motion late Monday morning to restore the hours, but there was no second.
“Here’s an opportunity. You have 3 million more dollars. Why would you target these people and do them harm?” he said. “As Christians, we run this county with love. We run it with economic sense, but we run it with love.”
Donald said he hopes the board will reconsider.
“It’s wrong. It’s wrong to think like that. It’s wrong to act like that,” he said.
