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PTC staff to study City Council salaries

Thu, 03/30/2006 - 5:48pm
By: John Munford

Peachtree City staff will be compiling more detailed information on how the mayor and council salaries match up with other cities of similar size.

The matter was brought up by former mayors Fred Brown and Bob Lenox in a letter to the city, urging that the workload and other factors make a possible salary raise worth considering for the mayor and council.

At last week’s retreat, council discussed having a citizen committee look into the matter further, but ultimately they decided to get more detail from city staff. The city’s mayor is paid $9,000 a year and council members get $6,000 a year.

Those figures are somewhat out of line other similar size cities according to data from city staff. The average of mayor’s salaries in those cities is $17,053 and it’s $10,600 for council members.

It was not clear which of the cities used in the data had full-time mayor and council and which had part-time mayor and council. That’s one of the things the Peachtree City Council wanted to know before moving ahead with the issue.

Even if raises were approved they couldn’t be applied until 2008.

“Tyrone and Fayetteville both make more than us,” Logsdon said, noting that both cities are much smaller than Peachtree City population wise.

Councilwoman Judi-ann Rutherford said she didn’t think raises in the mayor and council salary are “fiscally responsible.”

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Tyrone's mayor making more that Peachtree city's?
Submitted by did not know on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 7:06am.

The more comes out about Tyrone's old guard, the more it stinks! People have questioned the Mayor of Tyrone and Town manager's saleries for years! When brought up by taxpayers at Town Council meetings, I can..very..well remember the answer out of Mr Smola...that they did a survey and these were the going saleries for towns our size! He must have used some of his Yankee towns up North. On top of that, at council meetings, questions asked the Mayor that's harder than "what color are the walls in this room?" she tells people to call the office during working hours...meaning ask Barry...he runs the show...I just swing this little hammer for $500.00 and hour! Don't ask me to ...THINK TOO! I can also remember when asked that the taxes be lowered, since a lot of long time taxpayers here work for Delta, Ford, and the military. The answer was no. That it was less than $40.00 a family and that he wasn't willing to give that up. What arrogance!

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Tyrone's old guard
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Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 7:31pm.

The old guard accomplished two things - they resisted growth in the 1980's and got slapped with Wieland's lawsuit which he won easily as any professional could have told them ahead of time.

Then #2, they resisted growth again and did not manage or negotiate (as a profesional could have done) the commercial zoning that was a spawn of mistake #1.

The Tyronese people still think they can stop growth and still elect people who promise that. Get with it ---- elect real leaders and hire professionals on your staff who don't just blow smoke your way, but actually know something about growth and can mange it.


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while I am on a roll about Tyrone
Submitted by did not know on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 11:02am.

I would like everyone to know how much work our 2 new council women Gloria Furr and Grace Caldwell are doing. Shamrock Park needs to be spruced up and rather than a few decide what todo, Gloria, Grace, and Judy Jefferson, decided to let the taxpayers decide. First a questionaire was put in the local paper, then these 3 started going door to door with the questionaires asking everyone voice their ideas about what they would like done to the park. It became contagious and volunteers started popping up. They have done a wonderfull thing, and due to their hard work, swollen feet, and big hearts, people are back in the circle of what is going on. NOW, contrast that with the survey others did on the library. $6,000.00 for a rendering of where the library was going,[on land it didn't even own], $1,500.00 for postage, and choices of 3 or 4 pre-selected for you places you could decide to put the library. Then guess where the library is going? In ...another...place that they picked without you help! One group spent a lot of our money and never got it right...Gloria, Grace, Judy and volunteers spent ...0...taxpayers dollars and got our input and most important ...our respect!

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Tyrone's problems
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Submitted by H. Hamster on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 5:59am.

If Grace and Gloria are so wonderful, why don't they address the staff's shortcomings and get some people in there who can manage growth instead of fighting it? For that matter why don't they get with it themselves and understand downtown ain't coming back and the flood gates are already open. At the very least get some impact fees and raise taxes on the commercial buildings. Don't get swept away debating foolish things when you have a rapidly growing town to manage.


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about contrast of the GG girls to past other council
Submitted by did not know on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 11:16am.

You might say...some people don't know how todo anything EXCEPT... what .IS..RIGHT...and others...well, they... never... know how todo anything!

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ata 11 in the morning, babe
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Submitted by H. Hamster on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 6:54pm.

11:16 A.M. EST is much too early to be in the sauce. Please sober up and recompose - yourself and the posting.

Actually, I think you are onto something with Grace and Gloria. Get it out.


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Comparitive salaries
Submitted by Sailon on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 9:46am.

This is why other salaries shouldn't be used. What difference does it make? These are public service jobs, temporary at that, as it was intended. The better educated, the richer, the more busines experience a candidate has, etc., the more likely his administration will favor business, not people. People are more important to me.

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Mayor raise
Submitted by Sailon on Sat, 04/01/2006 - 6:19am.

If people run for the money, then we don't need them! Clayton and Fulton and Dekalb already have made a career out of their government.

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Mayor Raise
Submitted by fayettewest on Sun, 04/02/2006 - 7:22am.

We don't need to be providing these triple dippers a pension and a current salary. Town officials (elected) shouldn't serve over two times and at no salary. No career crap.

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