Comments on: Council Approves $10,300 for Employee Wage Study

By: Bruce W. Jones

Bruce W. Jones — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:38:20 +0000

Let the study be done by an independant person. Having your own town manager do this is like having a fox in the hen house. Having an outside entity will give you a better picture of all salaries including your top level managers.

However this only works if all reports are transparent, to the community who has wanted this study done. Good or bad, all data should be put on the table unvarnished.

By: Pamela Parris

Pamela Parris — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:29:05 +0000

So there was no discussion regarding the proposal? Wow! Another example of government gone awry,

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:21:19 +0000

Clearly this is one more case of runaway spending. We are paying a town manager, assistant town manager, two clerks and numerous other employees to be in the office 40 hours a week. Can someone please tell me why they can’t make a few phone calls to other towns, similar in size to our town,and find out what they are paying their employees? It’s a funny thing that a few months back I did a comparison of our town and Onancock (which by the way has 1,500 fulltime residents and is full of tourists in the summer). What I found out was they operate their office with 3-4 employees.

I also wonder if Ms. Arcos told the folks doing the study that we have 1,009 fulltime residents.

How much is the implementation information going to cost?

Here we go again folks — RUNAWAY SPENDING.