Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
I do wish people would get off this hobby horse of how much anyone doing service for the community gets paid. I'd be willing to bet that this grand sum given for board membership of the Park Board all goes into running to try to retain the office in the next election.I commend you if you are doing all that work in a week...but I don't believe you can speak for the productivity of others. Your meeting started at 5:00 and ended at 7:15 That's $200.00 per hour plus your benefits. For a mere 48...say 60 hours per year, you get good health benefits and according to what you said in an earlier post...you can miss 3 months of work...Still a sweet deal!
In the above cited instance, 2 hours for the meeting, but at the very least twice that much time to prepare for the meeting. If you think it's only 60 hours a year, you're living in a dream. If anything, being a member of the park board is a financial loss to its members.
All the posts about what people get paid sound so resentful. Compared to what private sector board members get, these piddling' amounts ain't spit.
WizardMarks, Central
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