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Posted on 02/13/2020 9:34:10 AM PST by rintintin
Just one month after Mariposa County Supervisors voted to give themselves a $30,000 pay raise, there is an active effort afoot from community members to reverse it.
On Jan. 7, the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors voted to increase the supervisors’ annual salary. The board passed an ordinance which increased the base salary for the supervisors from 25 percent to 40 percent of the salary of a Mariposa County Superior Court judge’s salary, which is about $200,000.
That percentage change boosts the supervisors’ salaries from approximately $50,000 to around $80,000, not including benefits.
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Democrat county. What are they are upset about? This is business as usual.
$80 for a super? That’s a taxpayer deal most everywhere else.
Must be nice to vote yourself raises with other people’s money.
They line their own pockets. In a one party state, they could care less what the folks that put them in office think.
They gave them the middle finger.
Democrat county? Trump beat Hillary there by 23 points. Their representative is Tom McClintock.
The usual justification is the raise is needed to get “quality” people to run for office.
Notice that these people have already run for office.
/just sayin’
Oh really? I was thinking of Marin. Goes to show graft and corruption are uniparty in nature.
One-party rule is a thing of beauty. Why steal state tax revenue surreptitiously when you can pass a law mandating it?
In Los Angeles County, the 5 Supervisors get 200K plus a $2 Million Dollar Slush Fund EACH to pass around as they see fit.
It is a rural county that had only 17,569 people in 2017. This would be a volunteer position in many parts of the country. There is misinformation afoot on this as well. Their salaries have been tied to the salary of a Superior Court Judge for the past 30 years. The politicians claim this means that they have not gotten a pay raise in 30 years, which is an out and out lie.
Public service has come to mean that the public exists to service its servants.
The politicians are trying to follow the CA corruption model. I guess they figure with all the migration from CA it might work.
Being a County Supervisor in Mariposa County is a full time job. To be effective and knowledgeable on a number of issues requires a lot of time on the job. I personally believe they earn the $80,000 per year and then some. Mariposa County is solidly Republican and we should support the good incumbents that we have.
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