"City Council members' salaries in L.A. are equal to judges: $178,789 a year. That's about $100,000 more than San Diego City Council members." ---- And that's about $150,000 more than SD council members are worth...

Posted by Larry | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 11:50 am

Must be nice to not worry what the voters might say. To quietly pass raise after raise avoiding the backlash while making 80-110K more the median salary in SD County. With car allowances, retirement and other perks, the -TOTAL_ compensation package is well over 200K annually. All while delegating responsibilty to subordinates who are not elected nor accoutable to the voters. Our founding fathers who spoke of government service, as a short term citizen obligation, must be spinning in the graves. No Mr. Horn, no one said you needed to make a vow of poverty. But on the other hand, no one intended having greedy robber barons as overseers either.

Posted by rd | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 12:40 pm

It is interesting that people like "Larry" make such comments. The old saying, "You get what you pay for" is so glaringly true... When the salary of the City Council is raised to a level that will attract a more capable and willing person, government will start to change for the better. You want to pay Police a security guards salary, you will get the equivalent in return. Fire away BBH... I know, cops and firemen only have GED's and high school educations and are not worth the money they make... I beg to differ. The City Council needs a raise and in this City should make closer to $125,000. Just my opinion.

Posted by Sparky | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 12:51 pm

Larry, I think the Christmas spirit has gotten to you. You are being far too generous.

Posted by Dukestir Wilkes | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 12:59 pm

I'd start each supervisor and council member at a yearly salary of 200K, per year. I'd then deduct $5,000 for each time one of them stood behind some other politician, for one of these many needless camera time press conferences. You know the ones, where all these folks line up and project that they're all on board for the emergency/cause of the week. Madaffer, Peters, Jacob, and Roberts would be broke by the end of the first fiscal quarter. When the cameras go on, these four could be a world class Olympic relay track team. Also, I'd vote that Donna Frye get paid double the going rate. She works 7/24 for her constituents and actually listens to the public (ie., her share holders). And, she wouldn't sneak a pay raise through using clandestine/nefariou means. Guess which politicians would sneak a p-raise through?

Posted by Dale Peterson | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 2:37 pm

...but just a year ago they cried poverty and cut medical retirement from employees. I guess they needed it for their salaries.

Posted by Employee | reply to this comment
November 29, 2007 6:55 pm

How about baselining County Supervisor salaries at $0 dollars, and paying them based on what they actually accomplish in office. For example, this Board of Supervisors has been considering updates to its General Plan 2020 update since 2001. That's six years of dithering! The reason is that the old general plan, allows developers to build more housing subdivisions in the fire prone rural areas of the back county, and the current supervisors don't want to upset their big developer campaign contributors. Perhaps they should be drawing their salaries from their developer patrons instead of the taxpayers who they're screwing over.

Posted by Watcher | reply to this comment
December 1, 2007 11:49 am

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