Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:23:52 -0400
From: Muddylaces
Subject: Conservatives agree with Ms. Penley
Virginia Penley’s point about the County Commissioners meeting less and should be paid less than their predecessors is a good one. In fact the current commissioners not only agree with this statement they have already implemented this as policy. Prior to this board taking over, the 5 democrat commissioners were paid for each work session as a special meeting and were paid extra. The current conservative led board felt that work sessions should not count as a separate meeting from the night session and now considered the work session and the night session as one meeting. This policy change resulted in a reduction of commissioner’s compensation (Virginia’s paycut). As a comparison, the democrat board was paid $16,125 for special meetings in 2010. In 2014 the mixed republican/democrat board was paid $3,128 for special meetings. The total expense for the 2014 board v the 2010 board, when you look at pay, mileage, and technology was reduced by approximately $9000.
The reduced meeting time resulted in dramatic reduction in staff time.Saving thousands $$ more. This freed up the county manager to be more flexible with his staffing and allowed the BOC to forgo replacing a recently vacated assistant county clerk position. This saves the county taxpayers $47k.
If this board flips the only people that will be taking a pay cut in 2015 will be the Chatham County taxpayers.
Look up your property tax records:
http://ustaxdata.com/nc/chatham/Search.cfm
Search for your property. Click on the Tax Bill tab. Look at you tax history years by year. You’ll see that your county taxes remained constant for the last 3 years. Can you say that for the years prior to 2011 when the liberals were in control?
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-mud