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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 30.2012
Banker will
stay on civil
service board
County employees keep rep
By Alyssa LaRenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com
The temporary member
of the Forsyth County
Civil Service Board won
the vote of employees to
hold a four-year term as
their representative.
Tim Perry, a local
banker, has been serving
temporarily on the three
member panel since
September after longtime
employee representative
John Blanchard resigned
in August.
Perry was appointed by
the civil service board's
other two members to
serve until an election
could be completed.
The board reviews
appeals of disciplinary
measures or firings of
qualifying county
employees.
Perry’s appointment is
expected to be ratified by
county commissioners
prior to the civil service
board’s first meeting of
the year, which is set for
Jan. 10.
Perry and Charles
Laughinghouse, a former
county commissioner,
were nominated for the
position.
HOROSCOPES
ARIES (March
21-April 19). When you
get signs from the uni¬
verse not to do some¬
thing, but you really
want to do it anyway,
try to find the bigger
person inside you and
heed the signs.
TAURUS (April
20-May 20). You need a
way of organizing your
time to get the most of
these final days of the
year. List-making will
serve you well. Bonus:
When you get it out of
your head and onto the
page, you'll sleep better,
too.
GEMINI (May
21-June 21). You will
see through the artifi¬
cial aspects of the
world. You'll realize that
you do have time to do
what you really want to
do if you change your
expectations and
another person's as
well.
CANCER (June
22-July 22). You're in an
innovative mood,
drawn to what hasn't
been done before. Also,
you see a real need for
new solutions. If any¬
one can crack the code
and uncover the mys¬
tery, you can.
LEO (July 23-Aug.
22). Anyone can make
the easy, feel-good
choice. But is that really
the best one? Right now
the comfortable choice
is being offered out of a
desire to control others.
You don't want to be
controlled. You'd rather
do what's hard.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) . You'll gather sacred
knowledge under the
guidance of elders.This
probably won't be a
mystical process.
Rather, it's simply that
experienced people tell
you what to do, and
you do it.
UBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23) . Get organized in
your own head. You're
after something that
you can't quite put your
finger on. Does wanting
more make you greedy
or ungrateful? No, it
makes you human.
SCORPIO (Oct.
24-Nov. 21). There's
nothing magical about
the way you’re going to
create a certain out¬
come. You're going to
get in there and do the
'I was pleased
with the partici¬
pation level.'
Charity Clark
Civil service board clerk
The weeklong election
this month yielded 193
votes for Perry and 44 for
Laughinghouse, board
clerk Charity Clark said.
“1 was pleased with the
participation level,” Clark
said. “The election ran
smoothly, and we were
able to remain in compli¬
ance with the new policy,
which wasn’t significant¬
ly different than what we
have done in the past, but
the policy allowed for a
clear and concise time
frame and overall election
process."
County commissioners
approved a revision to the
civil service board’s elec¬
tion process in October to
set discrete time periods
for nominations and elec¬
tions.
work. Figuratively
speaking, the dirtier
your hands get, they
more successful you'll
be.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21). You'll spend
more time on things
that really matter, fully
aware of how those
things often go mas¬
querading as mundane
happenings. An attrac¬
tive someone points the
way tonight.
CAPRICORN (Dec.
22-Jan. 19). You don't
want more to do, but it
has become obvious
that a dynamic will not
change unless you do
something. You'll take
responsibility for a situ¬
ation and be empow¬
ered by the move.
AQUARIUS (Jan.
20-Feb. 18). You may be
worried about what's
going to slip through
the cracks as you try to
accomplish everything
you want and need to
do by the end of the
year. Accept that you
can't do it all, and have
a little fun.
PISCES (Feb.
19-March 20). People
think it's not easy to be
relentlessly positive, but
when you truly feel
blessed, it's not hard at
all. Someone in your
environment will be
irresistibly attracted to
your positivity.
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Hearing this Wednesday
last for ethics
By Atyssa LaRanzie
8larenzi8@forsythnows.com
The outgoing Forsyth County
Board of Ethics could meet for
the final time Wednesday.
County commissioners last
month approved an overhaul of
the five-member appointed resi¬
dent board in favor of a pool of
out-of-county attorneys.
The new panel will assemble
only if a complaint or request for
an advisory opinion is filed, and
the members will include three
randomly selected attorneys from
a list of nine to 15 that have been
pre-qualified.
The intent of the commission¬
er-initiated changes is to remove
any potential or perceived con¬
flicts by bringing in a disinterest¬
ed group to hear the evidence in
an ethics issue.
Any future complaints will fall
under the new rules. However, a
pending complaint filed Oct. 19
will be the final task of the outgo¬
ing group.
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The ethics board will assemble
at 10 a.m. Wednesday for an
investigatory review on the com¬
plaint William Dunn lodged
against Michael Mahoney, an
assistant district attorney in
Forsyth County.
The review is intended “to
determine whether specific sub¬
stantiated evidence from a credit¬
able source exists to support a
reasonable belief’ of an ethics
violation, according to the code.
The board can either dismiss
the complaint or grant a hearing
following the review.
Dunn’s complaint addresses a
plea deal reached Oct. 4 in a
Forsyth County Superior Court
case.
In that matter, Charles McElroy
Turner of Lumpkin County had
been indicted on two counts of
impersonating a police officer and
two counts of false imprisonment.
He pleaded guilty to two counts
of disorderly conduct and
received 24 months of probation,
community service and a $1,000
1 3A
fine, in addition to other condi¬
tions.
In his ethics complaint, Dunn
contends "political pressure” on
the district attorney’s office led to
the plea with reduced charges.
He also maintains he was not
properly notified about the matter
in Forsyth County Superior
Court.
The response to the complaint,
filed Nov. 15 by District Attorney
Penny Penn, states that the coun¬
ty ethics board is “not the appro¬
priate place" to hear the issue
since Mahoney is a state constitu¬
tional officer rather than a county
employee.
Penn continued that the plea
deal is “the exercise of prosecuto¬
rial discretion.”
The alleged lack of notifica¬
tion, she writes, is not an issue
covered by the county’s code of
ethics.
Dunn followed up Nov. 15 by
submitting additional records
from the case file and e-mails
regarding the plea deal.