Hernando County Sheriff Rich Nugent deserves an attaboy for standing up to the county commissioners at yesterday's budget workshop. The sheriff was asked by Commissioner Kingsley if he had started to plan for the 2008-09 budget. Sheriff Nugent bluntly said no and he had no intention to plan a year out in time because it was totally unrealistic in an uncertain economic climate. Although I do not agree with the additional money in this year's sheriff's budget, Rich Nugent was a stand-up kind of guy by holding his ground with the county commissioners to state he was not participating in this biannual budget process initially promoted by Chris Kingsley. By the way, this two year budget cycle was formulated for major discussion to take place in 0ff-election years which would work to the advantage of all incumbent county commissioners.
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