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It seems like the City has money to throw around. It's being reported that they sent 40 people to Boston to check out the Pre-K program there. Forty people?

To note, Seattle Schools seems to be following this model. They get upset when the Board chooses a very high-quality math curriculum, saying they don't have the model. Then they hire more project directors, a principal coach and $9M for wireless upgrades.

Why is it the City and the district are poor when the leadership says they are but not when they decide to hand out raises? (And I know and believe there are hard-working people in both the City and the district but those at the top make some pretty good money.)
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Wow, you're all complaining about government waste like ... like .... fiscal conservatives.
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How many other salaries need to be adjusted to be in line with the new top of the pay scale?
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@2 Actually, most progressives are fiscal conservatives. Genuine fiscal conservatives rather than the cartoon Republicans have become.
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...and what do we get for that pay raise? Will he be working longer hours? Make smarter decisions? Provide leadership? Focus on serving the public and creating an excellent infrastructure? You mean, he wasn't doing those things already?!

My suggestion to the Barista's of Seattle: You too can make well over a qtr million a year if you pushed a few more lattes everyday. No excuse for laziness...
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As a person with an income subject to Obamacare, if my income went up 25% in one year, the IRS would be scrutinizing me and possibly fining me. I thought incomes only are supposed to go up in the range of 1%-10%.
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Since he obviously doesn't need the money to make ends meet, here's a more humane proposal: make the $15 minimum wage retroactive- seven years seems like a suitable interval for that.
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KUOW reported that while the range was going up, the mayor wanted to give him a raise of $65k. The reasoning given is that it would be the cost of hiring someone new for the job on the open market.

Rather than complaining that "this number seems high", could we actually see if this is really the case? If it is, then what is wrong with paying the going rate for something we need?
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@8 - What is wrong is the 'going rate.' High pay is a scam and creates a class system. It doesn't matter if all the other CEOs get rich. It's a scam. Very few of them provide their consumers with the leadership we so sorely need. They only represent themselves and their cronies. Oh ya, and the shareholders, especially the foreign ones.
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@9 So your solution is to underpay the fuck out of public employees to ensure that we only get the worst of the worst? How much should he be making, and what criteria are you using to make that judgement?
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@6 -- You'll be fined if your income goes up by too much? Can you provide some documentation for that cockamamie assertion?
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"Bruce Harrell was absent."

Nice way to represent the people. (More like avoid a damaging vote, yet again.)

The councilman with the massive mansion on Lake Washington just keeps looking out for his friend at City Light.
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@Solk512 - We do "underpay the fuck out of public employees", but not the CEO of City Light, the single highest paid position in Seattle. Increase the pay of all those working for the City of Seattle to $15 retroactively, like the mayor pledged!
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@9 What are you talking about? There are no shareholders, it's a public entity. Should we just low ball all our public executives? Yes, then surely we'll attract the type of talent we will need in the future to navigate Seattle City Light through the immanent industry-wide shakeup as customer generation reaches parity with grid power.

So let's pretend for a minute the City Council undoes this travesty of paying the going rate. Then somebody else will be the highest-paid public employee for the City of Seattle. Will we all then move the address of this witch hunt? What a bunch of bullshit. Oh and this is coming from a SCL employee who is very happy with his pay and benefits.

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