Mary Cagle, our new Inspector General, put as her salary requirements $195,000 to $250,000. She wrote that she was flexible. She was asked at her interview if she would take less and she said she would. Her current salary was $120,000. Only Michael Murawski, at the interview I was at, said no, he would not take less. He was asking for $200,000. Well yesterday Mary was awarded a $190,000 salary. I say it is excessive in light of her willingness to take less in speech and in the written word. I give whomever negotiated her pay a "C-."
Speaking of salaries and ethics agencies read Gimleteye's post yesterday,
Stop Crony Capitalism Now:
In Miami-Dade County, low public esteem of the state attorney's office
and the county commission on ethics is pervasive. It is a repeated topic
in the comments of readers of Eye On Miami.
How to account for the timidity of these entities that nominally protect
the public but appear, instead, to reinforce the status quo by virtue
of anemic, toothless response to corruption?
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Only if she does her job well without putting up with the customary Miami political pressure then she deserve every penny. If she does not serve the citizens then she does not deserve a penny.
I thought "public service" meant serving the public NOT getting rich at the taxpayers expense?
This article confirms there is a sucker born every minute. How can anyone not see that the fix was in with Mary Kagle's appointment as head of OIG? The determining factor of who gets hired for the post rests with Katherine Fernandez-Rundle- plain and simple. Fernandez-Rundle controls the selection panel and of course, she was going to select a former employee of hers to join Joe Centorino of the Ethics Commission for a perfect tri-fecta! While the State Attorney's Office and the two listed agencies are expected to be independent, nothing could be further from the truth! The social columns of this community are crumbling. Corruption and graft are daily occurrences in every area of the county. Fernandez-Rundle holds the reins to all three offices for the betterment of her cronies and the detriment of her political enemies.
So let me get this straight. The county is so broke it can't honor its existing labor contracts but found it needs another $200,000 a year lawyer. But this lawyer is special. She's getting paid to ride herd on the very people that just voted to pay her a whopping $200,000 package?
Politicians pay a lawyer to wash their sins. A whole new twist on indulgences
Miami-Dade County government is known nationally among government administrators as "The home of the $200k salaries."
You don't see those ridiculous salaries anywhere else but in Miami-Dade County government. Even the feds don't pay that much. The system you have in Miami-Dade is sick and broken.
you just exposed the new ethics director as someone who lacks ethics.
She does not lack ethics, the ones who do not have ethics are the ones who approve her salary.
Low paying officials are usually more corrupt. It makes more sense to pay good salaries in return for service, efficiency and integrity, we should also have more rigorous corruption and cronyism probes and raise the penalties for public corruption.
Um, last I checked $190 is less than $195.
The people who negotiated the deal are not overseen by her. People making those comments are uninformed.
I'd say $190 is a bit steep, but she'd make a hell of a lot more than that in the private sector.
Besides, there'd be people complaining that she got paid less because of her gender if they underpaid much more than that.
The salary may have been set by the new dimwit HR director Arleene Cuellar. She is another political hack hired because of who she knows, not what she knows. Her HR experience is limited to the county's error prone payroll division which is useless for 99% of real HR issues. There was no search or competitive selection process for Cuellar's position so you know that no one else will be required to go through a search for other county positions. The county government is filled with incompetents from top to bottom.
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