Posted on 12/28/2010 3:28:47 PM PST by artichokegrower
Santa Clara County's veteran fire chief, Kenneth Waldvogel, will retire at the end of the month, but the 57-year-old won't be packing up his office just yet. He'll be back on the job in January, taking home his $236,691 annual salary as a consultant -- on top of a $200,000 yearly state pension. County officials say the move gives them time to search for a new chief, but critics call the deal a classic case of "double-dipping" -- a practice that has outraged the public and frustrated lawmakers trying to rein it in.
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Wonder why California is broke? Here’s why!
That’s what the president of our local college did. It appears to be SOP for professionals who can get away with it.
Publice employees are the aristocracy of California. We work for them.
I think I missed the boat.
I should have concentrated on being some sort of public "servant".
Even if the law allows for it, you’d think the guy would have a little more discretion than this.
Just let government go bankrupt.
“where do you grown artichokes?”
Marina, Moss Landing, Castroville, and Salinas. Nice area other than the gang bangers.
This isn't “double-dipping”. He has two crackers. He's dipping them each into different bowls.
No he is dipping into the same bowl. The taxpayers bowl. So you are fine with the fire chief of a moderate sized city making more than the governor of the state? You are fine with a public servants pension being larger than the salary made by 99% of those in California’s private sector? You are fine with adding on to this a lifetime medical benefit? You are fine with $500 billion in unfunded public employee pension obligations in California? Tell you what I’m not fine with raising my taxes anymore to pay for all of this.
What would a fire chief consultant do that garners that big of a pay scale?
What part of broke do you not get?
Ummm...don’t you think they can hire an “up and comer” for a tad less than $1/4million per year? Are you freaking kidding me??
He built this job up all these years with mandatory raises. Its time to tear it back down. Fire Chief of the WORLD doesn’t deserve $250K/year. Sorry.
And here’s the problem...they CAN’T hire someone for $100K (which the job is worth) because he’d probably be the least paid guy in the firehouse.
Hmmm...
For nearly half a million dollars a year this guy better be one hell of a fireman.
I thought the unspoken rule of management was to submit a letter of resignation for the file and groom a replacement.
You and I have FReemailed before. I can’t remember what variety you grow. We want to put in some winter ‘chokes, but I don’t know who sells them around here (Aptos).
Who does he think he is?
A Cardiologist???
Government employees are literally gang raping the private sector tax payers.
Ping me when the FreeRepublic big-gov supporters show up, as they desperately try to convince all, fire department employees, and cops are worth the big dollars.
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