Luzerne County Government
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Luzerne County Government
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It’s decision time for home rule panel
Members of the Luzerne County Government Study Commission will vote tonight on whether to send their proposed home rule charter to the voters in November or to quash months of work in favor of keeping the current three-commissioner form of county government.County opts to buy, not lease, 911 tower
Luzerne County officials plan to buy land in Fairview Township for a new 911 communications tower, which will end the county’s need to lease a tower on privately owned land nearby.County cell-phone use might be taxed
Cell phones owned by Luzerne County government will be reported as taxable income for the roughly 200 employees assigned to carry them, according to a new policy that might be adopted by commissioners.County public defender urged to get more realistic
Luzerne County commissioners say they have informed Public Defender Al Flora that there’s no way they can accommodate his request for 27 additional employees, so they’ve asked him to submit a new request with his most pressing needs.Use of cars nets deputies $84,551
Six Luzerne County sheriff deputies who use their own vehicles to serve civil documents will be paid a combined $84,551 in addition to their salaries so far this year to date, according to county Controller Walter Griffith.Griffith gets to inventory county guns
After months of failed attempts, Luzerne County Controller Walter Griffith was granted permission Thursday to inspect the inventory of county-owned guns in the sheriff’s office.Philly law firm wants $205,000 from county
A Philadelphia law firm has asked the Luzerne County Retirement Board to consider paying $205,695 in legal fees stemming from a 2003 defamation suit against former county controller Steve Flood.Former deputy sheriff named to assist prothonotary
Luzerne County Prothonotary Carolee Medico Olenginski has appointed Pittston resident Arthur Bobbouine as her new deputy.Vehicles, forms won’t have sheriff’s name
Luzerne County Sheriff John Gilligan said he won’t be putting his name on sheriff’s vehicles or pre-printed forms and documents.County probation hires 4 clerks
The Luzerne County Probation Department has hired four employees, according to court papers filed Thursday in the county Prothonotary’s Office.County seeking security job applicants
Applications for Luzerne County government’s security chief position are due by 4 p.m. on July 9, according to an online job posting.A regional juvie center considered
Luzerne County Commissioner Chairwoman Maryanne Petrilla said she’d like to revive discussions with neighboring counties about establishing a regional juvenile detention center in light of PA Child Care’s recent decision to stop offering detention housing at its Pittston Township facility.County workforce agency outsourced
The outsourcing of Luzerne County’s Career Link offices in Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre took effect Thursday, resulting in the layoff of county Workforce Investment Development Agency employees who previously handled the job placement and training work.Public defender seeking 27 staffers
Luzerne County Chief Public Defender Al Flora is seeking 27 new positions in his office, according to a source familiar with his recent staffing request.Report on office sparks a quarrel
A request for additional staffing for the Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office in a report containing supporting statistical data has put Chief Public Defender Al Flora and Commissioner Stephen A. Urban at odds.Sheriff Gilligan dismisses Guarnieri
WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County Sheriff John Gilligan on Thursday fired Chief Deputy Sheriff Charles Guarnieri, effective at the end of the day.Court post vacancy, Pa. budget woes linked
WILKES-BARRE – Nearly six months after a former county judge was recommended to become the next court administrator, the position remains vacant, and some officials say it has to do with the state budget.Pa. Senate approves new sheriff
The Pennsylvania Senate Monday, on a 47-0 vote, approved the appointment of former Wyoming Borough police chief John Gilligan as Luzerne County sheriff.State archive expert raises concerns about county record storage facility
A state archive expert says Luzerne County’s leased records storage facility in downtown Wilkes-Barre raises many concerns, particularly a lack of climate control that is damaging to records.Official: Fee paid with fake cash
County officials looking into jobs office’s payments for woman’s passport
Vote seals fate of 40 county workers
Layoff of 40 appears to be unavoidable
Jobs of 36 county workers in limbo
County tax office privatized
County officials hire one, fire one
Bickering, but no leader at record improvement fund meeting
Skrepenak payout prompts policy change
Luzerne County records committee at standstill
Sale price for judges’ condo falls
Feds collect more documents
Subpoena served on Luzerne County Clerk of Courts Office
County will review airport documents
Bi-county board delays outsourcing
Feds eye another leasing
Public advocate for change
Agents look at Judge Zola’s office lease
Charged Reilly eyes work options
Uncashed checks found in safe
Salvation Army bid lone offer
Leagues cry foul when fees hiked
Griffith: FBI gets records
County expands lawyer pool for arbitrations
2 laid-off park workers to return
Controller seeking all contracts
County minutes’ focus: Accuracy
Tax Claim Office privatization near
Sheriff snubs controller’s plea
County investigating Wyoming Valley Airport
County reviews clocking systems
Controller calls for county cell phone rules
Sheriff’s office, union work to settle issue
In county, ‘Walter’ means scrutiny
Options to serve county papers on agenda
Bids eyed for Valley Crest Nursing Home property
County union contract increases benefits
Griffith: License twice suspended
Voting on county time-clock tabled
County staff will have to clock in, out
Center operator for nonviolent inmates picked
County selects firm to put in time clocks for employees
Medico: I called feds
Reilly rejects plea bargain
Defender applicants experienced
County vans not running
Stankovic says she was kept in dark on payments
Controller unmoved in tax meet
Feds look at county payments to firm
Security badge use questioned by Griffith
5 apply to be county’s chief public defender
Investigation to look into pay given Hyder
Prothonotary sees savings repairing carpet her way
County issues warning over chain e-mails
Grants for park remain unused
8 percent of county property tax unpaid
County wants out of suits
Richards bankruptcy case closed by judge
County workers rap cuts
Phone listing has sheriff, administrator
County close to privatizing tax claim office
Area tax collectors may sue
Gas cards assigned to county vehicles
Deal with county union staff hits hurdle
County discusses on-call pay
County gets 911 dispatch bids
Salary Board cuts on-call pay for managers
Heritage park grant sought
Russin offers to step down, source says
County to save $74,000 on leases
A novel take on prison contract
Search on for county HR boss
Meeting set on Russin pay flap
Controller wants better gas card records
Prothonotary: Cash wasted on sales tax
Russin ordered to repay
Court upholds sheriff pay suit
HR job open again after resignation
Homestead tax break is in county bills
Public defender’s extra pay sparks concern
Sheriff finally accepts subpoena
‘There was a mistake made here’
Acting sheriff won’t accept subpoena from controller
Homestead break is restored
New judge to hear Banks case
Luzerne County staffed far above average
County hikes tax 15 percent
Expensive arbitration for county
Nominee for sheriff selected
Bill lets members have vote to fill job
Controller rejects cash for Hyder
‘At-large’ council approved
Rendell to pick a sheriff soon
Hyder: Extreme anxiety
Skrepenak closes campaign fund
County eyes Moon Lake Park water for gas drilling
Griffith banning deputy pay plan
Property tax up 15 %
Luzerne County shuts down popular Moon Lake site
County limits media’s access to some chiefs
Inquiries on extra pay
County taxes will increase
Officials go at it in courthouse hall
Payments to records firm to continue
County mulls TIFs linked to corruption
Skrepenak pleads guilty
Sheriff’s gun sale brings probe
Two prison workers to be laid off
No proposals to run Moon Lake Park
County sets $5 million courthouse makeover
County gives probation union 11% boost over next five years
Emotional appeals to save park
Commissioners lay off 13
Bellas, Emanski plead guilty
Judges will try to cut budget
County considering outsourcing security
A potential conflict of interest for new commissioner?
County urged to keep recreation funding
Suspended clerk is terminated
Prothonotary employee fired
Griffith wants a clarified sick-pay policy
Cooney meets with chiefs on cuts
$973,500 for county records work questioned
Where is promised tax revenue, Urban asks
Current county gov’t opposed
Luzerne County’s whopping debt built up gradually
Skrep set for plea Jan. 26
Ex-officials plead guilty to bribery
Prothonotary employee suspended last month
Bonner officially resigns
Former activist now controller
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