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[Anon]

According to About.com a hiring freeze is when an employer decides to stop hiring employees for all non-essential positions. A hiring freeze allows an employer to consolidate current employees and potentially restructure departments, to complete the work that is essential for serving the customers of the business.

Additionally, During a hiring freeze, employers should restrain their managers from adding additional staffing costs in ways chosen to get around the hiring freeze. This happens through adding temporary or contingent staff, hiring part-time employees with no benefits, and hiring interns, for example.

So if La Porte County is fiscally is trouble why are people being hired. If we as citizens have to tighten our belts because the economy has hit so many of us, why can't County Government start by trimming some of the fat.

If our taxes are messed up and the County had to contract an outside agency to reassess us. The question is what are the employees in the assessors office doing??? Why are we, as a county, paying an outside firm and county employees?
But, yet our council seems to think this is okay. Make no sense to me. The council will say how fiscally tight things are and how broke the county is but I have stated two examples of how they are not .

Let's start by getting rid of the fat which must start at the top; replace the council with new more creative thinkers and say goodbye to what has been plaguing this county.