Wednesday, March 21, 2012 – 09:45 a.m.
An initiative to amend the San Bernardino County charter to reduce the pay, status and staffs of county supervisors is headed to the ballot.
The “Part-Time Pay for Part-Time Work” initiative, a measure backed by county unions, has officially qualified to go before county voters.
The Registrar of Voters is set to make a formal announcement later this morning.
The initiative, if passed, will reduce county supervisors total annual compensation from more than $200,000 to just $60,000.
Aside form the pay cut, the measure will also reduce a supervisor’s individual annual staff budget to $250,000.
The initiative, which is likely to pass in the current political environment, would be the first time county voters would cut elected official compensation.
County unions collected more than 70,000 signatures in a short window to qualify the measure.
An amount equal to more than 163% of the required 43,000 signatures needed.
The ballot box fight is a result of soured relations between the county and employee bargaining Associations over contract concession demands.
The contract for county sheriff’s deputies and district attorney investigators expired last weekend, and the county’s chief executive is demanding steep concessions.
Sources say that bargaining sessions between county management and the San Bernardino County Safety Employees’ Benefit Association (SEBA) have lacked any serious substance.
There must more to it than unions. I don’t think the unions have 70,000 members. I believe the voters are “madder than hell and not going to take it anymore!”
These worthless public servants, Ovitt,Gonzales and Rutherford should be run out of office as the incompetent, corrupt, moronic and easily manipulated fools that they are. Part time supervisors who have a REAL job is what we need. Then they can fire that evil antichrist, Cancer Deveraux and get a real govt administrator intead of Robt Rizzo.
You do realize that voting for this is like voting for a KING? Vote the current yahoos out of office and start over!
None of them are worth $60,000. Let’s see how the five stooges function with THEIR pay cuts
If you don’t vote for police raises, and pensions. The unions put a ballot initiative to reduce their salary. This is exactly what Burum and Erwin were charged with, when they opposed the initiative to raise their current excessive salaries?
Does anyone think Ramos will now go after SEBA?
NO CHANCE!
Frees up more money that the unions can try to get. Great. My tax dollars at work. Pick your poison.
THE COUNTY HAS A 6.5 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET. PAYING PART TIME WAGES FOR A FULL TIME JOB, ONE THAT REQUIRES SOME LEVEL OF EXPERTISE, IS NOT SMART. FOCUSING ON PERSONALITIES INSTEAD OF THE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES IS ALSO FOOLISH. WHO WOULD YOU ATTRACT IN THE FUTURE TO BE A SUPERVISOR? ONLY THE WEALTHY WHO CAN AFFORD TO TAKE THE JOB? AMATEURS? IF YOU DONT LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE NOW, WHAT WOULD FUTURE BOARDS LOOK LIKE?