As many Sacramento residents are still locked down and unemployed, Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the Sacramento City Council and City Manager are getting big raises, as crime spikes in the city, the drug-addicted homeless are only multiplying, and while still in the red tier of the Governor’s COVID lockdown.
This may be the most ineffective, incompetent and tone-deaf Mayor and City Council the city has ever had. Sacramento Unified School District middle and high school students partially returned to campuses after a more year absence, April 22. The Bee reported that only 58% students in the district have returned or are returning to in-person instruction. Where is the leadership?
The city’s Compensation Commission, which approved the raises last week, justified the significant pay increases after “looking at other cities comparable in size and structure when determining the raises, as the city charter requires. Those cities included San Francisco, Denver, Fresno, Long Beach, Oakland, Portland, San Diego, San Jose and Seattle.”
Apparently considering a performance evaluation wasn’t an important measurement. more here
Too late.
Canuckistan did it first on multiple levels.
Sad day when you boys are following our low rent jackasses.
Oh, good. Now they all can afford Blue-tooth enabled app-controlled wireless vibrating butt plugs for their stay-at-home teledildonic orgies.
Politics; the ONLY kind of job that rewards you for doing a shitty job.
California politics – like DC – is total corruption.
Does anyone really believe Pelosi keeps getting re-elected? Or Newsom even getting elected?
Until the voting machines are gone, all elections are suspect.
In states where ballot initiatives are allowed, voters ought to pass laws saying that all political pay raises must be approved by a vote of the people.
In Washington State, the voters must first approve an initiative to require a 2/3 majority for the legislature to override an initiative. Then put up the pay raise initiative. Washington law says initiatives can only do one thing, so the initiative could not specify that a 2/3 majority to override it.