Dec 31 2009
Letter to the Editor
I received this in an email from one of our readers who sent this letter to the editor to several of the local newspapers. I told him I would post it here since I wrote about a similar incident that I disapproved of involving the City of Charlotte city manager about a month ago.
ShareWith reference to The Herald’s Dec 15 article “Rock Hill City Manager gets new agreement” as the city deals with a tight budget in a down economy, the city manager with a $171,683 annual salary, the highest paid public County official, get’s a $4,200 bonus. In 2002 the starting salary was $128,000.
Now the concern with reference to the Herald’s Dec 27 article “Probing the causes of Rock Hill’s job crisis” of 23.3% unemployment, basically one in four are out in the unemployment line.
When everyone else has been forced to hunker down, lay off or get laid off, cutback, or go out of business, where does this money come from to give public officials these kinds of raises and perks?
PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND!
Jim Harper
Fort Mill,SC
