Comments on: City Chose Pay Raises When Others Tightened Their Belts

By: MT

MT — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:42:28 +0000

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By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:51:04 +0000

Yes my wonderful state raise equated to 67 cents an hour while Favors received $24,000.00 over the years. It doesn’t matter what color you are it’s peons who work harder than the higher ups get screwed all the time. A waste of hard earned tax dollars.

By: Edward Holifield, M.D.

Edward Holifield, M.D. — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 04:28:55 +0000

Meanwhile, black infants died in staggering numbers in this “All-America City” during 2014.

Although blacks are less than 35 percent of the population in Leon County,15 black infants died during 2014 compared to 5 for whites.

Yet, this was not even a topic of discussion for the city commissioners with only miniscule amounts of city money budgeted for this problem.

Apparently Gillum and his cronies don’t care. After all, infants don’t vote.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 02:09:57 +0000

So, the State employees who haven’t received any substantial increase in years, now must subsidize the City raises via increased property taxes. People get what they vote for and will continue to do so until they wake up. And, Wayne Tedder can say what he wants about the $7M bridge funds not being able to be used for the budget, it STILL COMES OUT OF OUR POCKETS. These people are so wasteful with our dollars.

By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:51:45 +0000

So if Anita Favors was making $204,000+ in 2010 and has been eligible for the increases over the last few years, her salary has been adjusted handsomely:

1% increase in 2011: $206,040
1% increase in 2012: $208,100
2.5% in 2013: $213,303
2.5% in 2014: $218,635
2.5% in 2015: $224,101

So with the proposed 3% increase, she will make $230,824. Her salary will have gone up more than $24,000.

This article from 2010 has salaries and perks for other high level officials. http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/84403377.html?device=tablet&c=y

I find it humorous that when asked about her salary, Favors stated that she doesn’t think her salary of $200k is a lot of money.

I don’t know about yall, but this tax payer begs to differ.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:44:26 +0000

This state employee got a .48 cent per hour pay raise in 2013. And no other pay increase since 2006 while both county and city employees enjoyed consistent raises even through the depressed economy when people were losing their jobs and houses. This is unsustainable by the community.

By: Sylvia J.

Sylvia J. — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:37:04 +0000

If you were listening today, several Commissioners did question them.