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Luke maintained that the department’s current staff was not overworked. As evidence supporting his opinion, he cited lack of overtime put in by Welfare employees.
“Do you expect overtime work?” Mrs. Buntin asked.
“I sure do,” replied Luke.
“How do you know we don’t work overtime?” Mrs. Buntin countered.
“I go by (the Welfare office) at 4 or 4:30 and there’s no one there,” Luke claimed.
“Col. Luke, that’s not true. We’re there to 5 p.m.,” responded Mrs. Buntin.
“We expect more,” the Supervisor Chairman continued. He noted that the Supervisors had been sympathetic to the Sheriffs Department’s requests for additional personnel because deputies worked upwards of 70 hours a week. “When they yell, we listen,” he said.
“I’m not convinced that six people can’t handle the job (in the Welfare Department),” Luke added, maintaining that it was the "privilege” of administrators to put in hours of unpaid overtime.
“The State Department of Welfare largely controls what we do and they say we need another position,” Mrs. Buntin said. “They expect us to work only 40 hours a week
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