Walton County loses three supervisors | three, county, walton - News - Northwest Florida Daily News
I never had to deal directly with the planning department except for simple family lot split and never had any dealings directly with Ms. Blackshear. I do know that she has been a large part of the planning portion of Walton county and the EAR process and the Comp Plan Process. The Future Land Use designations and other material that planning department works with. I know little other than what has been in the papper but do you think her retirement will be a positive or a negative for the county?
The loss of two people in emergency management was probably follow up from the merger with the Sheriff taking over the 911 functions but still the loss of two is concerning. I understand that this will mainly effect the North end of the county because South Walton has its on Fire District but I live in the north end and think if the County has removed these Higher Ups then who else has been layed because you never hear of the low level staff just the big wigs and how will the lower level layoffs effect the County?
The loss was not to emergency management, it was to the Emergency Response Division. The division is two departments, Fire Rescue and Animal Control. The division lost it's director, but the Fire Rescue Department in one day lost the Fire Chief and Asstiant Chief/Fire Marshal. That is a total of five positions lost in Fire Rescue when you add this to the three firefigters that were cut this year.
Put in place to run the Division is the Deputy Director, who was over emergency management and 911 dispatch, which is now under the Sheriff (wonder why?). Mr. Douglas was the EMS Manager, but in 2001 South Walton Fire District took over EMS services south of the bay, and in 2006 Walton County EMS merged with Walton County Fire Rescue.
The Daily News quoted Lynda Robinson as saying the position of fire chief has been done away with, and that his responsibilities will be taken over by Mr. Douglass.
Does he know anything about Animal Control?
So my question is, does Mr. Douglas have what it takes?