Posted on 05/07/2007 7:52:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is thinking big -- a big $1 million-plus increase in his own office budget next year.
Dellums is asking the City Council to give him seven new or redefined staff positions, including a $130,000 chief of staff, two $100,000-plus senior deputies and both a full-time bodyguard and a driver.
(The 71-year-old former congressman doesn't drive, and hasn't for some time.)
In all, Dellums' budget calls for 24 positions in the mayor's office, compared with the 17 positions his predecessor Jerry Brown had in his final year of office.
Dellums' budget director, Dan Lindheim, said about half the requested increase would be covered by redirecting money that Brown had steered toward the School for the Arts, one of his pet projects.
The new mayor has also budgeted another $350,000 for two "intergovernmental relations'' assistants he's counting on to hit up Sacramento and Washington for more state and federal grants for the city.
Plus, Dellums is asking for $100,000 to cover the $60,000 pay raise and pension benefit package that the council recently approved for him.
Add it all up, and the mayor's office budget would top $3.7 million -- up from the $2.4 million to $2.7 million (depending whose numbers you use) in Brown's budget.
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It is good to be king!
I guess he’s unable to sustain his style with the budget of Jerry ‘Moombeam’ Brown.
This is how democracy works in many African nations.
He honors his roots. What’s new.
I was wondering what Grady from Sanford and Son was doing these days.
Black version of Fidel Castro.
This is outrageous considering the deplorable state that Oakland is in.
They should never leave out his middle name “Red”. Beacause Oakland had better stock up on red ink with this commie planning his retirement in style.
He used to be the chairman of the Armed Services Committee
LEfty idots get what they deserve and the rest of the people suffer.
ROFL I was thinking the same thing.
They will get reparations one way or another.
i would bet that he stands in front of the mirror to practice his mean look. (some day these socialists are going to find out that conservatives have been lifting weights.)
Thanks to The World Bank etc etc ....Save Darfur....Turn the problem over to The African Union or Organization of African States....Better yet, recall the jackass former Sec Gen of the UN to solve the problems over there..He did great for Hutus and Tutsi didn't he? Whoops....no--he screwed them over too like he did us...., but he does have a great retirement scheme!
Yes, I believe we have done enough already for the REST of the world...No nation has done more, no people more for strangers, no country ever has had a bigger heart!
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