While he may not be too bright, at least County Executive Mark DiVecchio is persistent. Tuesday night that persistence paid off for the top six appointed position holders in his administration after a series of votes by County Council jacked up their salaries retroactive to 2007.
One of those votes saw the workweek expectations for these folks rise from 35 hours to 37.5 hours.
DiVecchio insists on making the ridiculous claim that because the county has a budget of $315 million annually that staff salaries should be commensurate with those of a private corporation of similar size.
This claim is patently stupid for a number of reasons. First what Executive level employee of a major corporation works a mere 37.5 hours per week? Most of the successful executives I know working in major corporations are knocking down between 50 and 60 hours a week.
Secondly if those folks are receiving pay increases, it’s not based upon the overall size of the company or what the competition is paying their employee but based upon their performance. Does their work effort merit the pay hike, not what does the guy doing this job make in the other county!
That’s the real question taxpayer should be asking the County Executive and Council. What has Bob Spaulding, the county’s director of economic development done, aside from junkets to Australia and China on the taxpayer dime, to deserve this pay bump?
The same for the director of personnel and finance, what have they done to reign in the out of control growth in the size of county government?
I think the answers are frighteningly simple.
One of those votes saw the workweek expectations for these folks rise from 35 hours to 37.5 hours.
DiVecchio insists on making the ridiculous claim that because the county has a budget of $315 million annually that staff salaries should be commensurate with those of a private corporation of similar size.
This claim is patently stupid for a number of reasons. First what Executive level employee of a major corporation works a mere 37.5 hours per week? Most of the successful executives I know working in major corporations are knocking down between 50 and 60 hours a week.
Secondly if those folks are receiving pay increases, it’s not based upon the overall size of the company or what the competition is paying their employee but based upon their performance. Does their work effort merit the pay hike, not what does the guy doing this job make in the other county!
That’s the real question taxpayer should be asking the County Executive and Council. What has Bob Spaulding, the county’s director of economic development done, aside from junkets to Australia and China on the taxpayer dime, to deserve this pay bump?
The same for the director of personnel and finance, what have they done to reign in the out of control growth in the size of county government?
I think the answers are frighteningly simple.
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