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No need to call a contractor,  we’re not talking ’bout digging any swimming holes!

This whole hiring a budget officer seems to have everyone’s undies all bunched up. So let’s place bets on when we will actually get one.

No need to ante up. Our pool has no kitty. All you’ll win are bragging rights.

Just leave a comment with the date you think will be the actual first day of work for our yet unfilled position of budget officer. Make sure you include the year. This search could go on fur-ever.

***any entries exceeding 25 words will be automatically disqualified.

So here we find ourselves again Yokels! Last week Billy was in rare form, hopefully things won’t get quite out of hand this week, but hey who are we kidding?  Grab your agenda and remember this game is for your entertainment purposes only.  Billy certainly doesn’t care about any of our liberal readers.

Budget transfers in the house! Only two tonight so it’ll go by fast. Transit and Fire Services! If Billy abstains or says yes instead of the correct aye, slam back a short bus. Since we would like to send him out on a short bus ride to Washington County, one way of course!

Second week of talking about the Samuel Cock homestead. When Billy brings up Trout Run, curse loudly at your TV or computer, then sip on your Troutie to calm yourself down.

Now we are on to three separate bill introductions:

Special exception to historic structures. This bill will do away with the ability to use a historical structure as a group home. We already mentioned Trout Run once , but when Billy moans and complains about how Narconon was not allowed to come up here and convert a bunch of people lift up your Happy Camper. Because that’s what we are since that wasn’t allowed to happen.

Next up, medical cannabis. Billy wants this so there shouldn’t be any acting up. (cough, cough).  Let’s all just drink some Happy Juice so that people who could really use this to feel better can finally get the chance to do so.

And finally, oh dear, ethics. Six proposed changes to the ethics bill. If anyone (Kirby) throws a fit (Kirby), have at a pitcher of Tirade. 

We cannot even begin to predict what may happen during council member comments. Drink at will!

County council budget tutor. Part-time, no benefits.

Duties include:
Stand in a parking space for hours.
Read aloud.
Keep track of keys.
Undermine County Executive at every opportunity.
Simplify and explain budgetary concepts for kindergarten level.
Stock, pour and serve Fireball. Hide Fireball when necessary (without forgetting where bottles are stored).

Prefer someone experienced with tolerating insults and banal requests. Ability to snap back with witty sarcasm may prove helpful. Discretion with intra-office relations a must.

We swear we did not make this up:

From: Shreve, Billy
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016
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Subject: FREDERICK COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS SHREVE AND DELAUTER REQUEST COUNCIL BUDGET DIRECTOR

Frederick County Council Members Billy Shreve and Kirby Delauter request Council Budget Director. Please see press release below for additional information.

Thank you,

Council Member Billy Shreve
County Council
12 East Church Street
Frederick, MD 21701
PH: 301-600-1034

PRESS RELEASE

Issued by: Council Members Billy Shreve and Kirby Delauter
Frederick County Council
Email: Billy@FrederickCountyMD.gov<mailto:Billy@FrederickCountyMD.gov> and KDelauter@FrederickCountyMD.gov<mailto:KDelauter@FrederickCountyMD.gov>

Issued January 7, 2016

Wanted – Council Budget Director

Help urgently needed!!!

We are responsible for a budget approaching $600 million and need a budget director. There are seven elected Councilman, but not one of us are accountants or CPAs, and the taxpayers deserve the service they elected us to provide. That’s why I am begging you to apply.

Job description – Sorry. After 13 months in office the council has failed to create a job description. In fact we have no plan to create one, and have no plan moving forward. That’s why am sending out this press release and urgent request for assistance.

If you have any budgeting experience I would like to hear from you. We need to hire someone quickly.

In 25 words or less tell me why we should hire you as our budget director.

Along with that, include in a cover letter if you would like to be full-time, part-time, have benefits, require a retainer, or are simply a company that can provide budget assistance.

Would you like to be hourly, salary, or contracted annually? When can you start?

While you are at it … Attach your resume.

If you can have something to me by noon Tuesday, January 12, 2016 that would be great! If you need more time something by Friday, January 15, 2016 at noon is OK, but I prefer Tuesday.

Send the items to Councilman Shreve & Delauter Billy@FrederickCountyMD.gov<mailto:Billy@FrederickCountyMD.gov>, KDelauter@FrederickCountyMD.gov<mailto:KDelauter@FrederickCountyMD.gov>, Subject line: Budget Director. If needed 301-600-1034.

We are a great group of people, very passionate, and love Frederick County. Unfortunately, for some reason, we have been collectively dysfunctional regarding hiring a budget director.

Unfortunately this is not a joke and we do need to hire a budget director immediately.

Help!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,
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Billy Shreve Kirby Delauter
Council at Large Council District 5

First of all,  why wasn’t the Local Yokel included in this list? Now, our 25 word reply in rhyme:

We budget our twenty-five words

Applying to work for two turds

Who snivel and snit and act as dimwits

So at their ugly mugs we shoot birds.

Remember to respond to both of the council men! Let’s flood their inboxes!

This evening’s county council meeting was going so well.  So well, in fact, that your yokel’s were messaging one another wondering what we could possibly say about it. Of course we spoke way too soon, because we oh so stupidly underestimated the chairman’s ability to throw everything all to hell.

Even after a whole year, Billy cannot learn the proper procedures. And we just knew that he was going to find some way to bring up Trout Run tonight. After claiming that he read the FrederickpNews Post story about yesterday’s court case, he asks which attorney is representing the county. Well if he actually read the story he would have seen this:

Really yokels, how stupid is it to refer to a story in the newspaper and then ask a question that is answered in that very same story? Seriously, does he not know how to read?

Billy is quickly shut down for asking questions during comments. Something he has been told many, many times before not to do. He claims to be asking for the public (thanks Billy but we can read). He then inquires as to whether or not he should walk down to the podium as a member of the public to get his questions answered. Our answer would be a resounding yes! Please, please return to the public so that’s the only place we will have to see you anymore.

At the beginning of the meeting Bud apologized for saying some erroneous things about Regina Williams and the position she once held. Instead of just letting it go Billy HAS to bring it up again during his comments because he is a CRETIN. Maybe we can go with Kirby’s Grannypod idea and lock Billy away in one.

Happy New Year one and all! This afternoon is the first council meeting of the new year and its chock full of all kinds of goodness. We are sure that with Billy’s ego all pumped up from his newly elected position as the Republican Central Committee Chairman he’s going to be all kinds of crazy. But please remember this is just for fun, the Chairman will not come and rescue you.  Grab your agenda and hold on to your seats.

Let’s start things off right! When the Chairman of the Board decides that it’s against his long held beliefs to vote on any of the consent agenda items  or to approve the minutes for the previous meetings, throw back a Set the New Year on Fire, because you really didn’t think things were going to change did you?

Time for County Executive appointments. We have all kinds of fun commissions on the list. It’s rare that “someone” doesn’t have something to say during this time. If we happen to make it through this agenda item without a peep, clink glasses with a friend and take a swig of your Silent Sam. Because we all wish for some silence from a few up there.

Zoning time! If Kirby tries to talk about another project that he swears is relevant but really isn’t, slam back an End Zone. 

There’s four items on the first reading calendar. Four! Historical structures, Medical Cannabis, Ethics and Transfer fees! Set up a row of your four favorite shots. Guzzle one down for each time there’s some grandstanding. Refill as necessary.

Public hearing to add the Captain Samuel Cock Farmstead (stop giggling!) to the Frederick County register of historical places. If (when) Billy mentions Trout Run, be sure to daintily sip your Red Rooster.

We here at the Yokel couldn’t make it to the hearing over the future of Trout Run today. According to Tony Ortega’s blog, things did not go well for disciples of L. Ron Hubbard. Here’s the account:

We just had a telephone conversation with Mary McConnell, who gave us some basics on how the hearing went today.

First, the news. Judge Nicklas did hear oral arguments from the two sides today, and gave himself 30 days to render a decision. Mary said she found the hearing to be a lot of fun as Judge Nicklas proved to be knowledgeable about the subject areas in general (including drug rehab) and in the case facts in particular.

Mary said that SBPI’s attorneys (SBPI is a subsidiary of the Church of Scientology) tried to convince the judge that this was really a zoning case, but he wasn’t having it.

“They kept trying to make this a zoning case, but he was on their game and said he knew it wasn’t a zoning matter,” Mary says.

The dispute is really about whether the Frederick County Council acted properly when it voted not to put Trout Run on its list of historic places, even after its own Historic Preservation Commission recommended that it be added.

SBPI tried to convince Judge Nicklas that the council had always, in the past, simply accepted the recommendation of the commission. This was the first time it did not put a place on the historic list after the Commission recommended it. SBPI seemed to imply that the council had an obligation to follow the commission’s suggestion.

But Mary says Judge Nicklas resisted that argument. “He’s not falling for that,” she told us. “He pointed out that they may follow the recommendation. They argued over the word ‘may’.”

The other side, meanwhile, tried to keep things focused and simple. “The county’s attorney was clear: This is a legislative issue, not a zoning one,” Mary said.

We asked Mary how the judge reacted when SBPI’s attorney brought up the notion that the Church of Scientology had been discriminated against.

“He totally ignored it,” she said. And perhaps also telling, when SBPI brought up what had been said in public meetings to the council about Scientology invading the county and being a ‘cult,’ the judge pointed out more than once that the people who had made those statements were respected members of the community. Oops.

Anyway, it sounds like Judge Nicklas is very clear on what’s at stake in this case, and that Scientology’s usual tricks didn’t confuse matters. But we always hate to guess how a judge is going to decide. We’ll just have to find out in the next month.

So it looks as though the judge isn’t buying these arguments. Seems like February 4th is the next magical day. We’ll let you know when we know.

As you wake up on this fine New Years’ morning with your eyes still unable to focus  from the spirits you consumed last night, you may first think that this piece of news is your brain playing tricks on you. We know that we did, but no. According to the Political Notes section of today’s FNP, Billy Shreve has been elected as chairman of the local Republican Central Committee. And it seems things are not so hunky dory:

Former Chairwoman JoeyLynn Hough was replaced by new Chairman Billy Shreve in a 5-4 vote.

“Every year, there’s an election. There’s winners and losers. And, unfortunately, this time, I was the loser,” Hough said. “He won, and I lost.”

Shreve did not return calls about the new position, but Hough spoke briefly of her tenure as chairwoman.

“I believe that I’ve done an excellent job as the chair for the central committee for the year I was there,” she said, citing her fundraising efforts.

In our conversation, Hough made reference to her friendship with Shreve. I asked whether that friendship was in the past or present tense.

“We’re on the committee together, so I’m going to continue to do the best I can to make Frederick County successful, and to make it red,” Hough responded.

She will continue to serve on the committee through 2018, the next time all of the committee seats are up for election.

Watch out Frederick the Red Scare is coming! And from the beginning of this article it looks as though we are going to have to start paying some attention to Vogt. Does it ever end?