I saw this in the morning paper and I about gagged on my coffee when I saw how much they were paying these three people. The alarming part is that this is going on all over the Country, and is exactly why so many small towns are facing insolvency.
Our City is shutting down a fire station, deactivating the apparatus there and laying off the crews, and will be laying off 8-10 police officers by the end of the year, because the City has worked itself into a $10 Million budget hole and there is no other way out.
But of course we still have a City Manager who makes just under $180,000 base salary, and an Assistant City Manager who makes just under $170,000 base salary. Our City Council Critters are all taking home $20,000 a year too. Nothing we can do about any of it except complain, and you only get 3 minutes on Monday night after all other Council business is done, where they all sit like Easter Island statues, nod politely when you are done, and then move on...
Wow, are you in Tucson???? That sounds almost identical!!!!