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The Welfare Department deserves an apology from the chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
In denying Director Elizabeth Buntin’s request to restor $9,290 to the Welfare Department’s budget, E. P. Luke stated that her staff did not work hard enough. He announced that he’d driven by her offices at 4 p.m. or 4:30 and found the building deserted. Before the Supervisors approve an additional social worker’s salary, Luke said the board expected overtime work from Welfare personnel.
We’ve got new for Col. Luke. Mrs. Buntin and the rest of the women on the Welfare staff are already taking full advantage of an administrator’s “privlege” to put in unpaid hours of overtime.
As next-door neighbors to their office, we’re well aware of the Welfare staff’s working habits. We don’t know when Col. Luke drove by at 4 p.m. and thought he saw the office closed but we can verify that Mrs. Buntin and her coworkers don’t leave before 5 pjn. unless on Welfare business.
If Luke based his statement on the absence of cars in front of the building, he should have taken the time to check further.
Mrs. Bun tin and eligibility worker Janice Moffett both live in Washington. They walk to work, arriving every day by 8:15 at the latest. Both frequently stay past 5 pjn. or return to the office in the evening. Often, both come in on weekends.
We see Mrs. Buntin go by our window, particularly at budget time when she tackles the Title XX plan, with her arms full of papers and notes. We doubt if she’s lugging her files home to impress us with her dedication.
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