The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that current Governor Nathan Deal has increased the payroll in his office by thirty percent over the benchmark set by the previous administration of Sonny Perdue.
The additional salary expense is attributed to ten more employees working for the new governor. With our economy struggling and already a bloated government budget running a deficit, the last thing we need are more government workers.
The size of government should be reduced, not expanded.
Curiously, the AJC article lists the governor of Georgia’s salary. Nathan Deal earns $139,339 per year to run the entire state.
Why the added emphasis? The Savannah Morning News website SavannahNow.com has reported that interim city manager Rochelle Small-Toney is making a whopping $190, 575 to manage a city a fraction the size of metropolitan Atlanta.
How and why does the interim city manager of Georgia’s 4th largest city make over $50,000 a year more than the governor? Why are we paying anybody in government this kind of money when states are going bankrupt?
Read my blog, Savannah is also paying for upper management blacks memberships, dues, forums,and parties to National Forum for Black Public Administrators NFBPA. Rochelle Small Toney, the police chief, the mayor, the D.A., the fire chief, and the list goes on. People have sent copies of open records received so far, to GBI and the Governor. It needs to be stopped.