They knew what kind of a job that they were putting in for when they placed the papers in for the election, with their backing signatures on board!! They waited for the outcome and dreamed of being elected for the Biggest, largest, County in the whole United States!! That has to be something in itself!! People do not run for an office as an application for a job, they do it so that they can represent the people that live in their neighborhood, but now that they feel that the tax base is good they must take advantage of it!!
Well I have news! The news is not good news!! It is always bad news, after all this is San Bernardino County!! The Tax Base is dropping, the home sales is slowing and the repossessions or retaking of mortgage home loans is up, way up. 68.3% UP!!
So a raise at this time is a race against time before the bottom falls out of the market and they cannot collect on the tax base that is out there. I guess they figure that they will get their money rain or sine, because the banks that take over the loan will pay the Back tax, but if that were the case then why are there so many people that can take over property from back taxes payments?? that is what I want to know??
BS Ranch!!
NO NO I Vote NO on the Raise for the COUNTY SUPERVISORS, Got that JOSE NO!
Article Launched: 8/05/2006 12:00 AM
County supes consider raisesSalary boosts would cost more than $1 million
Jeff Horwitz, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
San Bernardino County supervisors are considering double-digit raises for their right hand men for the second year in a row.
The move comes on the heels of the board's decision this week that their own salaries could use some polishing.
On Tuesday, county supervisors approved an amendment to the county's charter which would boost their salary to around 85 percent of a Superior Court judge's, give the chairman of the board an additional 7.5 percent raise, and impose a three-term limit on supervisors. Voters will decide whether to approve those changes in November.
The raises for chiefs of staff would be a part of an overall shuffling of employment classifications and salary adjustments, said Andrew Lamberto, the county's director of human resources.
More than 20 other types of county positions would also receive salary boosts, costing the county $1,010,000. If county officials do not address the proposal at Tuesday's board meeting, he said, the adjustments may later be included in the county's overall budget.
In August 2005, the board approved another batch of raises for the chiefs, lifting the minimum annual salary from $70,408 to $90,979. The current proposal would set a $100,318 minimum for the job with $128,461 maximum. If the board approves it, the chiefs' minimum salaries will have risen by at least 40 percent in just over a year.
San Bernardino County concluded that the pay should be improved after looking to six counties it uses as a salary barometer. Even after the increases, the county's second in command will lag behind two coastal counties, Orange and San Diego.
Not all supervisors are convinced another raise is in order. While the 3rd District's Dennis Hansberger says he'd "like to treat them very well," the county has to consider whether it's setting a good example for lower-level employees.
"A strong argument needs to be made why," Hansberger said. "Do I think this is the biggest deal in the world? I don't. But I don't want to give a message that is not equal and equitable."
Lamberto said the raise was justified in comparison to six other counties which San Bernardino County uses as a salary barometer. While Lamberto said he could not make the county's statistics available, San Bernardino County currently falls in the middle, he said.
Within the Inland Empire, San Bernardino County's chiefs will top their neighbors. The same job starts at a little more than $82,000 in Riverside County and does not come with as many benefits as the county's chiefs get.
The difficulty of the job also merits the pay, Lamberto said. Though chiefs of staff earn less than the second in command for many county departments, Lamberto said, "There's no blueprint for that job. They have to know county departments inside and out."
Given the importance of the position, Lamberto said, it is important to keep wages competitive.
"When times are good in the public sector, there's a feeding frenzy for staff," Lamberto said. "It is the CAO's desire to keep the cream of the crop here."
Uffer agreed with Lamberto's assessment of the chiefs' work. "You get what you pay for. These guys work very hard, and very long hours," he said. What the appropriate compensation for that work is is best left to the board, Uffer said.
"It's their side of the house."
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