When the Proudfoot Four voted themselves a pay increase back in November, Deputy Mayor Louise Wadsworth tried to bamboozle us into believing it was a decrease.
Here's how she spins it:
Last year, council cost the taxpayers $55,000.00. With the new pay scale in 2012, Wadsworth wants us to believe that council will only cost us $51,600.00. If you believe Wadsworth, the Proudfoot Four are saving us $3,400.00 per year.
But here are the real numbers from the Kearney Budgetary Control Document released February 1, 2012:
The $55,000.00 was the amount budgeted, not the amount it cost. What the town actually paid was only $47,575.00. So council's new "salary" (which they'll get paid no matter how little they do) of $51,600.00 will really cost us $4,025.00 (or 8.5%) MORE each year, or $12,075.00 MORE over the remainder of their term in office. And don't forget that council also had a pay increase in 2011. But Deputy Mayor Wadsworth thinks that we townies are far too stupid to figure that out and claims it's a 6.2% decrease.
The new 2012 pay increase will mark the most any council has ever cost the taxpayers of Kearney in its 100+ year history.
Are You Surprised?
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