Tue
Apr 6 2010
02:00 pm
By: harriman1
Elected Officials did not feel the economic pain in their check books that most have!
They got a good raise since the last election in 2006
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Eco warriors and politics
- Homeland Security retreats on plan to get data on mail-in voters (TN Lookout)
- Metro sues state again to block airport board takeover (TN Lookout)
- NAACP files for federal court injunction to stop new Tennessee congressional map (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Old Faithful, Tennessee style (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee Republican senator wants to change book-ban law (TN Lookout)
- Trump launches new strikes on Iran after US Army helicopter downed (TN Lookout)
- Trump’s slush fund scam has a Tennessee-connected origins story (TN Lookout)
- GAO finds millions of dollars wasted, safety and security at risk in Texas detention center (TN Lookout)
Science and stuff
- A new guideline links care for heart, kidney and metabolic diseases (Science News Daily)
- Earth’s stratosphere is a mysterious superhighway for microbes (Science News Daily)
- Sleep and exercise may dampen genetic drivers of heart disease (Science News Daily)
- Engineered hookworms could one day dispense drugs from inside your gut (Science News Daily)
- Frozen squirrel poop hints at sights and smells of Ice Age ecosystems (Science News Daily)
- These birds clack their wing bones together to woo mates at night (Science News Daily)
- Some pterosaurs may have boasted bold iridescence (Science News Daily)
- A drug may help people on GLP-1 meds preserve muscle (Science News Daily)
- AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails (Science News Daily)
- NASA declares MAVEN, its Mars atmosphere orbiter, dead (Science News Daily)
Discussing
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- It's Gettin' Real, Now...Gloria Johnson Made Wonkette! (1 reply)
- Does Rep Fritts Want School Shooters to Have Access to AR 15s? (2 replies)
- How many Trees Died Trying Save Us From Global Warming? (1 reply)
- Feel Good Friday,,,From our "If Only" Dept. (1 reply)
- Tennessee Education Worsens Under Bill Lee and GOP (1 reply)
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.
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Elected Officials Salaries
I couldn't get the links. Can somone resend them? I am interested in seeing this.
Julia Hurley
Julia@hurleyforhouse.com
I copied and pasted the
I copied and pasted the links they worked for me.
Randy Ellis
randyellis@gmail.com
Randy, thanks. I just kept
Randy,
thanks. I just kept clicking on them. Will cut and paste!
Julia Cheyanne Hurley
Julia@hurleyforhouse.com
Many of the elected officials - county level at least...
... are tied BY LAW to what level of increases - or not - that state employees get. That is not something that is generally under their control. A great deal of whether or not they get raised and how much they may get depends on the state budget that is passed and how state employees fare raise-wise.
RB
In the last Census (not the
In the last Census (not the one this year) our county's population topped the 50,000 mark, and in doing so,the elected official's (elected office heads, not commissioners)salary took a huge jump to a level set by law from Nashville according to population levels.
Harriman's
took a fall for the 10 years
When counting a county's
When counting a county's population everyone who lives in the county, including those who reside in a city, are counted to get a total count.
Based on the county folks I know...
... it really couldn't be classified as a "huge" jump. It was a significant raise for the first time in years, but not huge. Raises that do not equal or exceed the COL increases are not significant raises. And there were a number of times in years past they have received no raise, due to state employees not receiving a raise. See Ron Woody's posting here - he works for CTAS, and he knows that officials' raises are tied to state employee raises.
RB
I have updated the links to
I have updated the links to make them clickable. Remember that they are pdf downloads and may not pop up immediately.
CTAS publications
Glad to see you use the CTAS organization publication. I'm a CTAS consultant. Are we saying that the pay is too much or the raises too much? Raises are established by state law based on the raises of state employees is a simple way to look at it. I deciding whether to run for the office or not based on a lot of factors including my family's well being as well as the county's well being. I would not put my family at risk so it was tuff decision because the money and benefits are about the same. Folks let's think about it. Do you want folks who are qualified to run your government or do you care? I ask you the question why have you all not decided to also run for county commission or other elected positions? I've been in the business for 25 years and it is not all gravy. Decisions will be made each day and someone will not be happy. If it was not for my loyalty for my county I would not be in the race. My fellow workers keep asking me why I would want to run. They know what's in our publications, they know the issues with the job and they know what I make.
Pay a competitive wage and if don't what do we do? We often go to a competitive wage employer.
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What's the job?
$100,000,000 budget. Folks I want a qualified CEO.
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