JDA board intiates search for a "new" JDA director.

But the question is, do they have a new set of expectations for the performance of the new director, or are they just offering the same old do-nothing sinecure for a do-nothing care-taker? This is a golden opportunity for the citizens to tell the Camden County Commissioners to tell the board that if they expect to continue to be funded with tax dollars, they had better damned well actually produce some results. When done correctly, the job of the JDA is to sell Camden County as a desirable location for new businesses. That said, the JDA director is (in counties where the desire of the county commissioners is actually to bring in new jobs rather than to hold down the competition for good employees to benefit their good ol' boy constituents who own local, low-wage businesses)a salaried salesman. I'll guarandamntee you that there is no such thing in the private sector as a salaried salesman who does not have a sales quota. So why have we tolerated two do-nothing JDA directors here in Camden since my arrival in 19993, and no doubt before that? I would hope that the commissioners would insist, as a condition of continued funding, that the contract with the new man contain a time line and quotas (measured in new businesses, number of employees, and gross payroll) for performance with certain termination (with NO SEVERANCE) for failure to perform up to benchmarks. Conversely, in addition to the stick, there should be a carrot. I believe that it is well within the law for an independent authority to compensate the director with a combination of a nominal salary and a commission program. Perhaps this could be in the form of a certain percentage of the gross payroll of any new company recruited, payable beginning on the first day the company's second full year of operation in the county and paid annually thereafter for the balance of the company's first five years in the community. We really should not tolerate another do-nothing JDA with a well paid, do-nothing director on an expense account. What say y'all?