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Residents urge county to keep full-time fairgrounds staff as new manager starts
Summary
Two residents told the Limestone County meeting that the fairgrounds need a full-time employee (in addition to a manager) to handle heavy setup work and scheduling so the new manager can pursue revenue-producing events.
Speaker 3 told the board that the county's new fairgrounds manager has a promising background but needs support: "I would respectfully request that you consider leaving the full time position and let's give the young man a year to see what he can do," Speaker 3 said. The speaker urged keeping two full-time people at the fairgrounds to handle physical setup and allow the manager to run events and schedule bookings.
Speaker 2 described the physical demands involved in preparing for livestock and equestrian events, saying setup can take two full days and often requires a forklift and more than one person. "That gate weighs at least a 50 pounds," Speaker 2 said while demonstrating hardware, noting that an event recently brought several dozen horses and required dozens of stalls. Speaker 2 said those events had brought paying visitors to the area.
Both speakers asked the board to consider staffing and scheduling trade-offs, including the limits of relying on jail labor for some tasks. Neither speaker proposed a specific budget motion. The commission chair moved on to other agenda items after the public comments; no formal vote on staffing was recorded in the provided transcript.
