{"id":67,"date":"2006-06-13T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2006-08-31T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T18:31:16","slug":"county-pay-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"County Pay Hike?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Fowler has an interesting story<\/a> this morning, but to me, the most shocking news is old news.<\/p>\n

County elected officials in Tennessee are paid according to a state scale based upon population ranges, and officeholders in Anderson County are seeking to be reclassified to the 150,000 to 175,000 population range to close the gap between the pay of those offices and that of the County Mayor. The County Mayor is paid based on the salary for counties having a population of 200,000 – 225,000, or $92,648.<\/p>\n

Anderson County has a population of 71,330 according to the 2000 Census<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the article, the change in the County Mayor’s salary was made “years ago.” I’m not sure when, and I’m not sure why, except that it does seem plausible that a lower salary would attract few really qualified candidates. As it is, it seems tough to entice attractive candidates.<\/p>\n

Looking at the census tables, there isn’t any county in the 200,000-225,000 range; after Shelby, Davidson, Knox and Hamilton, the largest is Rutherford Co. at 182,023. Anderson is 15th in population ranking.<\/p>\n

However, this response is the one that nearly made me choke on my coffee:<\/p>\n

Lynch on Monday voiced objections to any pay hike request that doesn’t include the county mayor, calling such a move “discrimination.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lynch’s salary is already that of someone in his position in a county three times the size of ours, and he thinks that it’s “discrimination” to bring the others up to wages set for counties twice the size of Anderson without raising his own? Does he really think he’s that much better than every other elected officeholder in the County?<\/p>\n

I don’t care what he thinks, frankly, and I’m offended that we elected someone who is actually capable of expressing such a sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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