We all know the argument: you can never spend too much money on kids and school programs.We think the Orlando Sentinel recently published yet another reason why Joe and Jane Taxpayer no longer believe that argument to be true.
It seems that Commissioner Betty Wyman of Orlando retired from her City Council position last week, and then moved right into another office in City Hall as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Director of After School All Stars. As the Sentinel notes, "As a commissioner, she led the same program as a volunteer."
While serving on the City Council, receiving a salary of $46,540, she handled these tasks as a volunteer, even though it was noted that this program was her main focus during the last few years on the City Council.
So we suppose you could argue that hiring someone to fill this position would be roughly worth the $46,540 annual salary, even though Wyman was supposed to be addressing not just this program as a City Council member.
What's Wyman's new salary for this position, the same thing she was volunteering to do while being paid to be a City Council member? $75,000, or $101,000 including benefits.
Some times the numbers just don't add up. Perhaps we need an after-school program, not for kids, but for those who hire for these positions.
3 comments:
In the Ad-zette on Saturday they are going to run an article on KUA trying to offer over 600,000 to the city of Kissimmee to bail them out. The article they are doing does not tell the whole story. We recommend that you get the tape of the meeting and judge for yourself the way Jim Swan and Jim Welsh were working together as if they had discussed this idea before the meeting. Check it out Wayne, this is a a big issue that if it were investigated, people would be in trouble!
I heard the Jim Swan was not very happy when the vote did not go his way. Not sure about him and Welsh working together, but would not doubt it. Have to wonder if that is a sunshine law violation. Are ratepayer money and taxpayer money the same thing?? I don't know the answer, but it sounds like it is at least an ethical violation.
Ethics? What are those?
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