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Vidalia board formally adopts pay raises
Published Friday, June 27, 2008
VIDALIA — In a brief meeting on Thursday evening, the Vidalia Board of Aldermen adopted an ordinance regarding pay raises.
The board originally voted to approve the raises at their meeting on June 11.
City attorney Jack McLemore said the issue had to be revisited because the correct notice of the public discussion, to coincide with the June 11 meeting, was not published correctly in the Concordia Sentinel.
The raises will be given to aldermen, mayor and police chief.
Comments
Posted by timnoklahoma (anonymous) on June 27, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think that ANY elected person who runs for office and gets elected should get his/her pay and be done with it. If he/she wants a pay raise, they should be allowed to vote on it and if it passes it should take effect on the first day after the next elected people are seated. If they get re-elected, that is fine, then they can have the raise. If they don't win, the new person gets the raise that was already voted on. If someone runs for an office, they know beforehand what that position pays, and if they don't think that they can live on that, they should not run for that particular office!!!
I think that I want to go to work for Wal-Mart and after I am hired, I will call Bentonville and TELL THEM that I want to give myself a raise because me and some others at work decided that we did not make enough money for the job that we do----I think that would go over really well with the CEO. Elected people work FOR the public, not the other way. This item has been a sore subject with me wherever I live. It happens a lot more than the average person would ever know!
Posted by destiny (anonymous) on June 27, 2008 at 12:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The inane merry-go-round. Get elected to give yourself a raise. I'm with you on this one Timin. If they vote for a raise knowing that they won't get it but the next elected official will, then I feel pretty sure there will not be too many raises. Remember this voters next voting time.
Posted by commander (anonymous) on June 27, 2008 at 1:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wait a minute....the chief of police in Vidalia makes more than the chief in Natchez? Come on people, something isn't right here.
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