The meeting was three hours so I apologize for my math. $150.00 would be correct. A $12,000.00 health package blows me away...I was thinking it was more like $7,000.00 as in the corporate field which is being cut this coming year to rectify lower profits and hard times. This is not resentful at all....just looking at little areas of how money is spent in our fair city...who takes the hit, who doesn't in tough times for amount of time worked. > > > Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote: > >> 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!
Wizard Marks 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. > > > > 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. Chris wrote: > I wouldn't be so hasty, if I were you. > > 1. Most of the commissioners come to the meetings looking unprepared, so the > remark about twice as much time preparing is way off base. > > 2. In addition to about $11,000 a year in salary, they also receive about > $12,000 a year in benefit (health, etc.). That's pretty good pay, even if > they do spend twice as many hours preparing, since it works out to about $150 > an hour, including that preparation time, of compensation. Not many part-time > jobs pay anywhere near that. > > 3. Your remarks about the private sector demonstrate how poorly informed you > are about the private sector. Sure, there are plenty of examples which have > gotten lots of visibility of over-compensated private board members, > especially in the past 6 to 8 years of greed fest. But I can name example > after example of private sector boards for multi-billion companies (that is, > much larger than the Park Board) where the board members get paid a lot less. > I own stock in many private sector companies, and for each one, I get all of > the SEC required filings including the annual reports, which specify down to > the penny how much the board members get paid. Very few of them get paid as > much as the Park Board. > > I am not taking a position one way or the other about the Park Board > commissioners compensation, but I think your criticism of Dorie Gallagher is > way off base. > > Chris Johnson - Fulton Thanks Chris...appreciate the notes and I would like to reiterate...very few get paid as much as the Park Board. dorie gallagher nokomis > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
