Much has been made of Paavo Ogren's salary as the new General Manager of Oceano. But in searching around the internet, I found an overlooked bit of history about our own Los Osos CSD from 2005. Apparently one of those yelling the loudest about the Oceano General Manager's salary was a supporter of a Los Osos INTERIM General Manager making a TON more money than Mr. Ogren!
The facts on this mountain of money for an IGM for Los Osos were published in The Sun Bulletin (a Tribune subsidiary back then) on October 19, 2005. I had to go into the archives and pay $2.95 at NewsLibrary.com, the service provider for the SLO Tribune Archives, so I can't point to a link to the article directly, but you can access it yourself if you want to pay, google this title in the Trib's archives (there is more than one article too):
| October 19, 2005 PRIVATE ENGINEER HIRED BY NEW SERVICES DISTRICT BOARD COULD COST $14,500 TO $24,000 A MONTH |
The gist of the article says that Dan Bleskey will replace Bruce Buel as GM. Buel earned $94,000 year plus benefits. LOCSD President Lisa Schicker reported that Bleskey would work 3-5 days a week. He will cost the District between $14,500 to $24,000 a MONTH!
So, for a former LOCSD Director to raise a stink about a salary to a permanent General Manager (who by the way will be working two jobs under that title) in another town in which she does not live, seems hypocritical at the very least, but to those who follow sewer politics, it seems like an angry punishment toward a person who, as Public Works Director, offered so much expertise, support and hard work toward getting Los Osos a much delayed sewer, which this same CSD Director didn't seem entirely sold on our town even needing.
2 comments:
Julie's hypocrisy never stopped her. She seems to have some process where she has to accuse others of everything she did in order to expiate her own guilt. It's something that should be watched in a psych lab, not in public forms. In that context it might be interesting instead of disturbing.
Some people live a whole life completely self unaware, but when pressed, self justify (and logic need play no part)! They skip the "ask forgiveness" part as they feel there is no need.
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