WE HAVE A MAJOR CRISIS ON OUR HANDS!! Urgent Update on Lorettas status with the county: If you have ever rescued or adopted a dog from Columbus County, we need your help today. If you have worked on this page with us to save lives, we need your voices in emails, phone calls, and contact with the media. Loretta has been informed this morning that her current salary $25,000/year - thats public record) is appropriate for her job classification of Administrative Office Assistant. They have CHOSEN to ignore the specific and irrefutable documentation she has provided illustrating that she does much more at the shelter than answer phones; they will not reclassify her or give her any increase in salary. As you can imagine, Loretta is devastated; she needs and deserves a salary increase, but she is just as upset to realize that the county officials place no value on all that she does on a daily basis at CCAC. (To recap for new Villagers, she does all of the office work and payroll, cares for the animals, cleans when needed, coordinates with rescues, assists with placement of feral cats by recruiting local homes, goes into local schools - on her lunch break - to teach students about animals and how to treat them, goes through all required county trainings which are Rossies job, supervises all volunteers from local schools or those doing community service, goes to the shelter on weekends to release animals for rescue . . . and the list goes on). Yet Columbus County officials classify her and pay her the same as someone who sits at a desk with five other workers and answers phones and emails. Rossie Hayes, the manager, has even said to county officials that Loretta does ALL that she claims to and more and that she does a lot of his job, but nothing has been done. There is currently a housekeeping position open with the county which pays up to $26,000 a year; so a newly hired housekeeper could potentially earn more than our Loretta. Columbus County officials believe this is fair. I dont know what else to say right now without breaking our own rule against profanity. I can tell you that Loretta has remained at the shelter ONLY because of the rescues and adopters who come through this and the cat networking page; she has stayed because she loves the animals, but her hope for improvement has been destroyed today. We have begged her to stay while we work on help for her, but that help must come swiftly and decisively. Here is the contact information for county officials; please consider writing or calling with respectful but clear messages. If you can get help through pages like Gabes or The Patrick Miracle, lets do it. If you can get any media involvement, lets do it. This is our one last chance to save these animals; without Loretta, countless dogs would have and will die here. If you have any ideas, all are welcome. Thank you, Lynn
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:09:48 +0000
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